Google Cloud Storage
Google Cloud Storage Contributor(s): Margaret Jones and Sarah Wilson Google Cloud Storage (GCS) is an enterprise public cloud storage platform that can house large unstructured data sets. Companies can purchase the storage for primary or infrequently accessed data. Google Cloud Storage is a service within the Google Cloud Platform. It provides unified object storage for live or archived data. Objects stored in Google Cloud Storage are grouped into buckets. Buckets are containers within the cloud that can be individually assigned to storage classes. Google Cloud Storage customers access their data through a web browser or command-line interface. Customers can also choose the geographical location in which their data lives. Google Cloud Storage offers four storage classes: Multi-Regional, Regional, Nearline and Coldline. All classes offer unlimited data, the same tools and APIs for data access, Open Authorization (OAuth) an