GCP Persistent Disk

GCP Persistent Disk is a highly durable and scalable network storage service offered by Google Cloud Platform, designed to provide block storage to Google Compute Engine (GCE) virtual machine instances. It functions like a physical disk attached to a server, but it's network-attached, offering…

Key facts

First appeared: 2012
Category: technology
Problem solved: GCP Persistent Disk was created to address the need for durable, performant, and highly available block storage for virtual machines in a cloud environment, overcoming the limitations of ephemeral local storage and the complexity of managing traditional enterprise SANs.
Platforms: Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

Related technologies

Operating systems (Linux, Windows Server)
File systems (ext4, XFS)
Cloud SQL
Databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB)
Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
Google Compute Engine (GCE)

Notable users

Google (internal operations)
Companies running databases and stateful applications on GCP
Any enterprise utilizing Google Compute Engine for IaaS workloads