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manigandham on June 26, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Cloud Filestore, high-performance file storage for...

This is a product that gives you a file system, like attaching a disk, but over NFS so it's available for multiple servers to mount over the network.

If you don't actually need a disk-based file system and just want to read/write individual files as objects, then object storage like Cloud Storage is your best option.

namibj on June 26, 2018 [–]

Specifically, it depends on whether you need random writes to files and/or (some) file locking semantics/consistency.

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