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Google Cloud Storage

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241 Reviews and Ratings

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What is Google Cloud Storage?

Google Cloud Storage is unified object storage for developers and enterprises.

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What users are saying about Google Cloud Storage.
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Superb software in the digital era

Incentivized
Dhiman RoyView profile
Officer in Customer Service at Sonali Bank Limited (10,001+ employees employees)

Pros

  • Secured storage
  • Easy access
  • Automatic back up system

Cons

  • Storage of the large data can be more easy
  • Filtering system can be improved
  • Pricing is high

Most Important Features

  • Easy access
  • Security is perfect
  • Share cloud with colleagues for project management

Return on Investment

  • This software is helping the organisation by securing the huge data
  • Can share cloud with colleagues for work practice
  • All can easily access to this software

Alternatives Considered

Microsoft Office 2016 (discontinued), Microsoft Access and Kdan Mobile PDF Reader

Other Software Used

Microsoft Access, Microsoft Office 2016 (discontinued), Kdan Mobile PDF Reader

Great for static files

Incentivized
Verified User
Engineer in Research & Development (51-200 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Google Cloud Storage for a few things. Primarily we use it to host static files for our web app, with a staging bucket for the staging environment and a production bucket for production. Additionally, we store user-uploaded assets like logo files in our buckets. We also store our Terraform state of our architecture in Google Cloud Storage.

Pros

  • Excellent Node SDK
  • Great web interface for management
  • Easy to use access management

Cons

  • Not very straightforward to integrate app authorization logic with Google Cloud Platform's authorization for files (better at fully public files)
  • Not ideal that if a bucket is public by default everything in it must be public

Return on Investment

  • Google Cloud Storage is very affordable

Alternatives Considered

Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)

Other Software Used

Google Cloud Run, Netlify Platform, Google Cloud SQL

Google Cloud Storage is Great!

Incentivized
Matthew BernsteinView profile
Account Executive in Marketing at Intersection Co. (501-1000 employees employees)

Pros

  • Unlimited storage.
  • High performance.
  • Allows for multiple cloud programs to save on one drive.

Cons

  • Hard to find files sometimes.
  • Not entirely intuitive.
  • UI/UX could use some improvements to make it easier to use.

Return on Investment

  • Lower storage cost.
  • Increased security.
  • Saves time.

Alternatives Considered

Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)

Other Software Used

Google Hangouts Meet, Zoom, Cisco Webex Calling

Google Cloud Storage is a Highly Available and Integrated Object Storage

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Cameron GableView profile
Software Engineer in Research & Development at Serimmune Inc. (11-50 employees employees)

Pros

  • Highly available storage option.
  • Virtually unlimited storage option.
  • Easily accessible using APIs.

Cons

  • Console can always be improved to better user experience.
  • More work to be able to use it similar to a file system.

Return on Investment

  • Saved money on storage.
  • Saved time on maintenance of a file server.

Other Software Used

IntelliJ IDEA, MySQL, Tableau Desktop, Tableau Online, Google BigQuery, Google Drive, Google Hangouts (Classic), Google Keep, Google App Engine, Google Kubernetes Engine, Docker, Stackdriver, Atlassian Confluence, Jira Software, BetterWorks, Udemy for Business, Pluralsight, Coursera, Apple iCloud, Oracle Java SE, Python IDLE

Google Cloud Storage, Cheap, Secure and Reliable

Incentivized
Eric Mason
Lead Developer in Engineering at SaaSquatch (11-50 employees employees)

Pros

  • It provides object storage at a very affordable price.
  • Reliable/enforces security best practices.

Cons

  • The JavaScript SDK is difficult to work with.
  • The UI/UX could use some improvements/doesn't seem great for managing a massive number of objects.

Return on Investment

  • Reduced our storage costs.
  • Improved our storage security (reducing security infrastructure costs).

Alternatives Considered

Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)

Other Software Used

Google BigQuery, Amazon CloudFront, Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)