When to use it

We can use Cloud Storage for storing media content and storage delivery. We can also have data backups and archive data storage in terms of retrieval frequency and total duration.

Cloud Storage can also be treated as an integrated repository for analytics and machine learning. Along with this, we can store our huge videos and music content on Cloud Storage, which can be streamed. Storing images and website content would be very simple to think of, but it can be very cost effective.

We can use Cloud Storage for video transcoding as well, where we can have Cloud Storage as source of the data. The customer can access this data, which will be processed by a transcoder as per the customer's requirement.

Other uses can be to archive ...

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