For applications that do not have low latency requirements, cloud storage buckets are the answer. Google Cloud Storage buckets form an object storage system that offers a very flexible, reliable, and scalable storage option for a compute engine instance. Cloud storage buckets also make it possible to share instance data across multiple instances and zones. You can also use cloud storage buckets as a common storage between your on-premise instances, as well as other cloud service providers. This logo represents Google Cloud Storage buckets:
Performance of cloud storage buckets depends on the location of the bucket relative to your instance and also the storage class that you select. There are four storage classes that you can select your cloud storage bucket from. The four storage classes are multi-regional storage, regional storage, nearline storage...