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Google Cloud Storage: Google Drive's big brother

Multiple products doing the same thing....

Not sure how this is somehow unique to Google. Amazon, for instance, has both "Amazon Cloud Storage" and "Amazon S3".

Maybe you're using the term "same thing" too broadly.

Google Drive is about allowing non-developers to store files via a built-in interface. You can sync files automatically between computers and view and edit the files online with various web services.

Google Cloud Storage is about allowing DEVELOPERS to store files on behalf of their customers to be able to build applications that need lots of storage but without the developer needing to provide their own storage infrastructure.

It's like the difference between Microsoft Office and Microsoft Visual Studio. With one, a user can USE office-like applications on a Windows machine. With the other, a developer can CREATE office-like applications to run on a Windows machine.

I think you're right Gisabun. However, it behooves one to consider the SLA and manageability. In regard to Google Cloud Storage, this mostly concerns almost everything discussed in the 'What Google Cloud Storage offers to enterprises' section of my post.

Perhaps I'm just a bad writer, but everything you stated BIGELLOW, is basically everything I wanted to convey in my post. First off, I draw parallelism between Amazon S3 and Google Cloud Storage in my first paragraph. Secondly, I totally agree, Google Cloud Storage is for developers and Google Drive is for consumers. In fact, I discourage use of Google Drive if you're looking to build business-driven applications. Did you read the last sentence in my opening paragraph. What gives man! We're on the same page!