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A startup is building a new social media application that needs to store user-generated content, including images and videos. The application expects rapid, unpredictable growth in data volume (potentially petabytes) and user traffic. Content needs to be highly available globally, securely stored, and accessible from various client devices. The startup wants a cost-effective solution with minimal operational overhead. Which Google Cloud storage service should they choose?
- APersistent Disk Balanced
- BCloud SQL
- CCloud Storage Multi-Regional
- DFilestore Basic
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Correct answer: C. Cloud Storage Multi-Regional
Cloud Storage Multi-Regional is object storage designed for high availability, global access, and massive scalability (petabytes) for unstructured data like images and videos, with a cost-effective, serverless model.
Why the other options are wrong
- A. Persistent Disk is block storage attached to Compute Engine VMs, not a standalone storage solution for user-generated content and lacks global availability and multi-regional resilience by default.
- B. Cloud SQL is a relational database and is not suitable for storing large volumes of unstructured binary data like images and videos.
- D. Filestore is a managed NFS file storage, primarily for applications needing shared file systems, not typically for globally distributed, petabyte-scale user-generated content storage.
Cloud Storage Multi-Regional
A Google Cloud object storage class designed for high availability and global accessibility, storing data redundantly across multiple geographic regions for maximum resilience and low latency access from anywhere.
- Ideal for frequently accessed content with global distribution.
- Unlimited storage capacity, scales to petabytes and beyond.
- Offers high availability and durability (99.999999999% annual durability).
- Serverless, pay-as-you-go model with no operational overhead for infrastructure.
Memory trick: Cloud Storage Multi-Regional holds all global user content.