Cloud Storage has four storage classes: Standard, Nearline, Coldline and Archive. Each of those storage classes provide 3 location types:
- A multi-region is a large geographic area, such as the United States, that
contains two or more geographic places. - A dual-region is a specific pair of regions, such as Finland and the
Netherlands. - A region is a specific geographic place, such as London.
Characteristics applicable to all storage classes: