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Flexible object storage with Cloud Storage - Google Cloud Platform Tutorial
From the course: Google Cloud Platform Essential Training for Developers: Cloud-Native Development with Gemini
Flexible object storage with Cloud Storage
Something that I have observed is that data has gravity. Once you put it somewhere, it's just hard to move. That's why choosing the right storage solution now will save you a headache later. So we're gonna move beyond just saving files to your local machine. And instead, we're gonna look at object storage for your assets, Cloud SQL for your transactions, and Firestore as a serverless option. It starts with the most versatile tool in the box, Cloud Storage, so let's create one. So right here within Cloud Shell, the first thing we want to do is set up some global variables. Now, this is very important. I've been doing this through some of these previous chapters because it just really streamlines your development and just getting things provisioned in a very quick way. So let's take a look at this again. We've got your export with your project ID that we've got located there. as far as region US central one. Now the bucket name is what's going to be unique for this chapter and then your…