One of the data transfer barriers that all companies face is their available network. Transfer Appliance is a high-capacity storage device that enables you to transfer and securely ship your data to a Google upload facility, where we upload your data to Cloud Storage. 

Cloud Spanner is the only enterprise-grade, globally-distributed, and strongly-consistent database service built for the cloud, specifically to combine the benefits of relational database structure with non-relational horizontal scale. It is a unique database that combines transactions, SQL queries, and relational structure with the scalability that you typically associate with non-relational or NoSQL databases.

Cloud SQL can scale in the following ways: Cloud SQL read replicas provide:

Cloud Storage has four storage classes: Standard, Nearline, Coldline and Archive. Each of those storage classes provide 3 location types: Characteristics applicable to all storage classes:

By default, users in your project can create persistent disks or copy images using any of the public images and any images that principals can access through IAM roles. However, in some situations you might want to restrict principals so that they can create boot disks only from images that contain approved software that meets your policy or…

By default, Compute Engine encrypts all data at rest. Google Cloud handles and manages this encryption for you without any additional actions on your part

Create and run shutdown scripts that execute commands right before a virtual machine (VM) instance is stopped or restarted. This is useful if you rely on automated scripts to start up and shut down instances, allowing instances time to clean up or perform tasks, such as exporting logs, or syncing with other systems. Shutdown scripts…

Spot VMs are highly affordable compute instances suitable for batch jobs and fault-tolerant workloads. Spot VMs offer the same machine types, options, and performance as regular compute instances.

Compute Engine offers general-purpose machine series that run on either x86 or Arm architecture. The Tau T2A machine series is the first machine series in Google Cloud to run on Arm processors.

Let’s compare both of these configurations to help you decide which is appropriate for a given situation. Shared VPCs are useful when projects are in the same organization but are not used when traffic needs to flow between projects in different organizations. In that case, VPC network peering can be used.