Cost optimization best practices for Google Cloud Storage

With Google Cloud Storage, you can securely store unlimited amounts of data without worrying about infrastructure or scalability limitations.

However, as you scale your Cloud Storage usage, your costs can quickly spiral out of control.

So if you’re looking for best practices to optimize your Cloud Storage costs and performance, you’re in the right place!

Tune into the Google Cloud team to:
- Gain an understanding of Cloud Storage, including benefits, features, and how pricing works
- Learn practical ways to optimize your Cloud Storage costs, while meeting performance requirements
- Ask questions and receive answers live from the experts

03:29 Introduction to Google Cloud Storage
05:41 Optimizing your Google Cloud Storage spend: Best practices
08:06 Data location
10:42 Location types
13:46 Choosing a location type: Recommendation flowchart
15:45 Save on bandwidth costs with Cloud CDN
17:38 Data access patterns
21:20 Choosing a storage class: Recommendations
24:55 Autoclass
27:37 Data retention and management
30:07 Object lifecycle management
35:00 Choosing between object lifecycle management (OLM) and Autoclass
37:00 Object versioning
38:49 Storage Insights inventory reports
41:10 Summary of the three key decisions that influence Cloud Storage costs: Data location, data access patterns, and data retention and management
42:30 Summary of best practices: Monitor Cloud Storage usage, use Google Cloud labels, and use budgets and budget alerts
47:10 Resources and what's next
48:00 Q&A

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