This page provides an overview of Cloud Storage and how it works. Cloud Storage is a service for storing your objects in Google Cloud. An object is an immutable piece of data consisting of a file of any format. You store objects in containers called buckets. All buckets are associated with a project, and you can group your projects under an organization. Each project, bucket, managed folder , Cloud Storage pricing This document discusses pricing for Cloud Storage. For Google Drive, which offers simple online storage for your personal files, see Google Drive pricing. If you pay in a currency other than USD, the prices listed in your currency on Cloud Platform SKUs apply. Overview Cloud Storage pricing is based on the following components: Data storage: the amount of data stored in , Cloud Storage is a global, secure, and scalable object store for immutable data such as images, text, videos, and other file formats. You can add data to it or retrieve data from it as often as your application needs. The objects stored have an ID, metadata, attributes, and the actual data. The metadata can include all sorts of things, including the security classification of the file, the , Data availability and durability This page discusses concepts related to data availability and durability in Cloud Storage, including how Cloud Storage redundantly stores data, the default replication behavior for dual-regions and multi-regions, the turbo replication feature for dual-regions, and the cross-bucket replication feature. Key concepts, Cloud Storage allows world-wide storage and retrieval of any amount of data at any time. You can use Cloud Storage for a range of scenarios including serving high performance AI/ML and analytics data sets, storing data for archival and disaster recovery, or distributing content to consumers across the globe., Transfer from Cloud to a file system We recommend using Storage Transfer Service to move data from Cloud Storage to your file system storage. With this method, you install a small piece of software, called an agent, in your private data center. The agent runs within a Docker container and has access to your locally mounted NFS data..