AI engineering glossary · MLOps, LLMOps cloud
What is GCS (Google Cloud Storage)?
Google Cloud Storage (also called GCS): Google Cloud's object storage service, which stores files as objects in buckets with several storage classes for hot and cold data. It is commonly used for datasets, model checkpoints and pipeline outputs.
Google Cloud Storage: an example
A training job reads its dataset from a GCS bucket and writes checkpoints back to the same bucket.
Related terms
More MLOps, LLMOps cloud terms
- GPU instance
- Grafana
- Health check
- High availability
- Horizontal Pod Autoscaler
- IAM role
- Identity and access management
- Image scanning
Where you learn it
Google Cloud Storage is part of the AI Engineering Program, which teaches it with notes, a hands-on lab and an exam. The first lesson is free.