Google Cloud Persistent Disks (Block Storage)
A type of block storage called Google Cloud Persistent Disks offers dependable and quick storage for your virtual machine instances on the Google Cloud Platform.
- We can back up our storage using persistent discs, which allow us to attach discs of various sorts and sizes, such as SSDs or HDDs, to the necessary virtual machines. This block storage will boost throughput and decrease latency.
- Because of its high durability and support for snapshots, persistent discs enable us to take a disc backup when necessary without losing any data.
- Once the disk is attached to the VMs then also we can change the size of the disk which makes them more flexible it can be done without losing the data.
- Persistent Disks are more secure we can encrypt the data by using a Google key or customer-managed keys and also we can restrict the access of the disk to specific users, groups, or resources by using IAM roles.
Cloud Storage in Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
We can store our data on a remote server with Google Cloud storage, and we can access that data whenever we need to. In addition, Google Cloud Platform provides a number of cloud storage choices, each with special features and applications. The types are listed below.
- Google Cloud Persistent Disk(Block Storage)
- Google Cloud Filestore(Network File storage)
- Google Cloud Storage (Object Storage).
- Google Cloud Storage for Firebase
- Google Cloud Storage Transfer Service