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Google Cloud Platform for Architects

By : Vitthal Srinivasan, Loonycorn , Judy Raj
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Google Cloud Platform for Architects

By: Vitthal Srinivasan, Loonycorn , Judy Raj

Overview of this book

Using a public cloud platform was considered risky a decade ago, and unconventional even just a few years ago. Today, however, use of the public cloud is completely mainstream - the norm, rather than the exception. Several leading technology firms, including Google, have built sophisticated cloud platforms, and are locked in a fierce competition for market share. The main goal of this book is to enable you to get the best out of the GCP, and to use it with confidence and competence. You will learn why cloud architectures take the forms that they do, and this will help you become a skilled high-level cloud architect. You will also learn how individual cloud services are configured and used, so that you are never intimidated at having to build it yourself. You will also learn the right way and the right situation in which to use the important GCP services. By the end of this book, you will be able to make the most out of Google Cloud Platform design.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
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Logging and Monitoring

Use case – object life cycle policies

It is pretty common that we'd want to automatically change storage classes of an object, so that it stays in a hot bucket for say a month, then gets relegated to a colder bucket, and finally is deleted altogether. This is what object life cycle management policies are meant for.

They allow you to specify how long the objects should exist under the same settings in your bucket before a specific action is triggered. For example, when we realize that there is archived data that has not been modified for over six months and is not likely to be accessed or modified any time soon, you can convert their class to nearline storage to save on cost.

You should note, however, that object life cycle actions are classified as Class A operations, which means that they can be expensive if you don't use them right. Do check out the fine print...