High Performance SSD-based Volume storage

Attach secure and scalable SSD-based Volumes Block Storage to your Virtual Machines in Gcloud

Get optimum scalability and flexibility with elastic block storage from Gcloud

Block Storage is a block-level data storage service attached to Gcloud Virtual Machine instances and features low latency, persistence, and high reliability. Block Storage enables automatic replication within the same zone to avoid data loss caused by hardware failures and guarantee the stability and continuity of your workloads. You can manage Block Storage as you manage disks. For example, you can partition Block Storage devices that are attached to Gcloud VM instances and create file systems for Block Storage devices. You can also use Block Storage devices to achieve data persistence.

Storage
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High availability

Your data is stored on hardware separated from your Virtual Machine and replicated multiple times across different racks, reducing the chances of data loss in case of hardware failure.

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Reliable and secure

All your data is encrypted at rest and transmitted to the Droplets over isolated networks.

03
Cost-effectiveness

Optimize cloud storage services spending with our flexible tiered options and no-cost private network. Move your data between Gcloud data centers

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Scalability

Scale fast for your most demanding, high-performance workloads, resize them if you need more space, and move them between Virtual Machines

Storage_Overview

Relational Databases

Support for user-created NoSQL databases deployed on ECS instances to achieve high reliability for read/write requests

Based on new-generation software and hardware technologies and network architectures, ESSDs provide random read/write latency of hundreds of microseconds. The random read/write performance for each disk reaches up to 1,000,000 IOPS. ESSDs are the ideal storage option for user-created NoSQL databases deployed on Gcloud Virtual Machines

Enterprise-level Application Software

Virtual desktops, medium sized single instance databases such as Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle, latency sensitive interactive applications, boot volumes, and dev/test environments

NoSQL Databases

Support for user-created NoSQL databases deployed on Gcloud instances to achieve high reliability for read/write requests.

Based on new-generation software and hardware technologies and network architectures, ESSDs provide random read/write latency of hundreds of microseconds. The random read/write performance for each disk reaches up to 1,000,000 IOPS. ESSDs are the ideal storage option for user-created NoSQL databases deployed on Gcloud instances.

Features

Predictable billing

Lock in costs with no hidden fees or additional charges.

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Global footprint

Provision block storage in Gcloud global data centers.

Online Scaling

Scales out disks without service disruption. You do not need to restart ECS instances or detach disks during scaling.

Data Protection

Creates snapshots for disks to support data protection, data recovery, image customization, and application disaster recovery.

Benefits

High Reliability

Deploys disks in a distributed architecture to guarantee 99.9999999% data reliability that is much higher than that of physical disks.

High Performance

Provides a single disk with the random read/write performance that reaches up to 1,000,000 input/output operations per second (IOPS). Each disk achieves 4,000 MB/s sequential throughput.
You can select required disks to serve your workloads.

Scalability

Supports storage capacities of up to 32 TiB on each disk and allows disk scaling without service disruption.

Security

Enables simple and efficient data backup based on snapshots. You can meet industry compliance requirements by using the Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) model to encrypt data in disks.

Gcloud presents a true virtual computing environment, allowing you to use web service interfaces to launch instances with a variety of operating systems, load them with your custom application environment, manage your network’s access permissions, and run your image using as many or few systems as you desire.


Select a pre-configured, template to get up and running immediately.


Configure security and network access on your Gcloud instance.


Choose which instance type(s) you want, then start, terminate, and monitor as many instances needed, using the web service.


Determine whether you want to run in multiple locations, utilize static IP endpoints, or attach persistent block storage to your instances.


Pay only for the resources that you actually consume, like instance-hours or data transfer.


IO tier 0.25 IOPS/GB 2 IOPS/GB 4 IOPS/GB 10 IOPS/GB
Monthly Price USD 0.05 USD 0.12 USD 0.16 USD 0.48
Hourly Price USD 0.00007 USD 0.00017 USD 0.00022 USD 0.00067
Frequently
Asked Questions
Unlike the data stored on a local instance store (which persists only as long as that instance is alive), data stored on a gcloud block storage volume can persist independently of the life of the instance. Therefore, we recommend that you use the local instance store only for temporary data.
when attached to Gcloud Instances, higher IOPS volumes can achieve single digit millisecond latencies. Your exact performance depends on your application’s I/O requirements.
No, snapshots can be done in real time while the volume is attached and in use. However, snapshots only capture data that has been written to your Gcloud block volume, which might exclude any data that has been locally cached by your application or OS. To ensure consistent snapshots on volumes attached to an instance, we recommend detaching the volume cleanly, issuing the snapshot command, and then reattaching the volume.
Gcloud block storage encryption offers seamless encryption of block storage data volumes, boot volumes and snapshots, eliminating the need to build and maintain a secure key management infrastructure.