Google Cloud Storage Offerings Bolstered For AI Apps
Search Storage, Thursday, April 17th, 2025
Storage for Google Cloud now supports many features akin to AWS' catalog for AI app development, but could lead to cloud lock-in as best practices and strategies emerge.
New products coming to Google Cloud's storage offerings aim to support AI application speed and availability, but buyers leaning on a single cloud might find that this is another form of vendor lock-in.
Google's two latest storage offerings include Rapid Storage, for submillisecond reads and writes to object storage, and Google Cloud Managed Lustre, a managed parallel file system built on DataDirect Networks' technology.
Such offerings show that Google and other cloud hyperscalers aspire to become the dominant cloud platform for AI creation, said Brent Ellis, an analyst at Forrester Research. Many storage capabilities previously sold separately or developed in-house by enterprises are becoming part of cloud portfolios.