Google Cloud Data and Storage Foundations

Learn the fundamentals of cloud storage on the Google Cloud platform, including storage features, data migration, and more.

Introduction

• Google Cloud Storage and databases

1. Object Storage on GCP

• What does object storage look like?
• Popular Google Cloud Storage features
• Demo: Migrating data in Cloud Storage

2. Relational Databases

• Relational database options on GCP
• Relational databases: When to use Cloud SQL or Cloud Spanner
• The benefits of using Cloud SQL and Cloud Spanner
• Demo: Connecting to GCP from a WordPress app

3. Non-Relational Databases

• Non-relational database options on GCP
• When to use Cloud Firestore or Cloud Bigtable
• Demo: Setting up a Firestore and Bigtable database

4. Data Warehouse and Analytics

• Using BigQuery as a data warehouse
• Using BigQuery instead of Cloud SQL or Cloud Spanner
• Demo: Creating an interactive report in Data Studio

Conclusion

• Next steps