What you'll learn

Choosing storage by habit instead of by how a workload uses its data rarely fails right away. It shows up later as backups that are hard to manage, static content that is hard to serve, and data handoffs that break when a bucket name or object path changes. In this course, Google Cloud Storage Fundamentals, you’ll gain the ability to create, verify, and troubleshoot a simple object storage workflow while understanding how storage choices shape the architecture that follows. First, you’ll explore how object storage in Google Cloud Storage differs from the disks attached to Compute Engine VMs, and how a workload’s data usage should guide the choice. Next, you’ll discover how to create a Google Cloud Storage bucket, upload and retrieve objects, and confirm expected behavior through object metadata. Then, you’ll learn how to diagnose and correct common problems, such as using the wrong bucket or object path. Finally, you’ll examine how foundational storage choices affect backups, static content, and data handoffs, and when a workload calls for a database or a more specialized storage service instead. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge of Google Cloud Storage needed to build a basic object storage workflow with confidence and make sound storage decisions in later architecture work.