What are Buckets in Cloud Storage in GCP?
What is a Bucket?
And in cloud storage a bucket is the object’s confer in which the objects you upload are stored. It’s one of the basic principles if you want to see your objects in a more systematic manner. You would love to think of a bucket as some area in an organization, let’s say for instance a department where related objects are grouped together.
Why are Buckets Important?
Buckets are crucial for several reasons:
- Storage Classes and Locations: Buckets enable you to select an application type and storage class which determines the Object’s accessibility, reliability and backup. This means that storage can be done based upon certain needs that may be present with certain products or goods.
- Security: Buckets is another way that allows you to set very strict policies that actualize right down to the bucket level. This means that your buckets can be safeguarded from the outsiders and confined only to the elaborated users.
- Globally Unique Name: All the buckets are provided with unique name so that they can easily be named and differentiated from others. This however saves on confusing or even mixing up one account with that of another.
Cool Features of Buckets
Buckets offer some amazing features that can help you manage your data more effectively:
- Bucket Locking: This feature is one that enables organizations to set policy on retention of data, on where it is to be stored and for how long.
- Object Lifecycle Management: Of course, you have an option to define TTL for your objects and it provides an opportunity to version objects, change storage class, consider compliance requirements or cost optimization.