Google Cloud Storage

Google Cloud Storage (GCS) is an object storage service provided by Google Cloud, designed for storing and accessing any amount of data from anywhere on the internet. It serves as the storage backbone for numerous Google Cloud services including BigQuery, Cloud Run, and Vertex AI, providing durability through erasure coding and geographic redundancy. Unlike file systems, GCS organizes data into buckets containing objects, where each object is immutable and identified by a unique key, making it particularly suited for analytical workloads and static content delivery rather than transactional mutation patterns.