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When you create a Cloud Storage bucket, you choose its permanent
geographic location. As your business needs change, where you store your data
might need to change too. For example, your data might be better situated in a
highly available dual-region bucket, a lower cost regional bucket, or simply a
different region of the world.
This tutorial helps you to select a location
that best fits your needs.
Objectives
Choose a new location for the Cloud Storage data.
Costs
In this document, you use the following billable components of Google Cloud:
To maximize performance and lower your total cost of ownership, co-locate your
data and compute in the same region(s). Regions and dual-regions are both
suitable for this purpose.
To avoid data replication charges, store short-lived datasets in regions.
For moderate performance and ad hoc analytics workloads, multi-region storage
can be a cost-effective choice.
When transferring to a new bucket, consider if the current
storage class still
suits your needs.
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