Using AWS S3 Tools with Google Cloud Storage: Critical Update

2025-05-14 · 485 words · 3 minute read

gcp · gcs

AWS's recent changes to defaults in their S3 tools broke GCS compatibility. This post shows you the fix.

Faster and Cheaper? Google Cloud's N2 vs C4

2025-04-28 · 289 words · 2 minute read

gcp

Discover the performance and cost gains of C4 VMs over older generations. I showcase this with demos using a MySQL database and compiling the Chromium web browser.

Restricting GCS buckets by IP address

2024-12-02 · 1571 words · 8 minute read

gcs · gcp

Enhance the security of your GCS buckets by implementing IP-based access control for Internet and VPC Network clients using Bucket IP filtering.

Building a shared GFS2 filesystem with Hyperdisk Balanced HA multi-writer

2024-10-08 · 1691 words · 8 minute read

GCP · Hyperdisk

Achieve cross-zone resilience and high performance for your applications with Google Cloud's Hyperdisk Balanced HA Multi-writer. This blog demonstrates how to build a GFS2 shared-disk filesystem with Ubuntu across two zones, ensuring data availability even during zone failures.

High throughput file transfers with Google Cloud Storage (GCS)

2024-02-01 · 1940 words · 10 minute read

gcs · gcp

8 GiB/s transfers to Google Cloud Storage? With a big enough VM sure thing! Learn how to parallelize your transfers using Composite and Multipart Uploads, and Range Read Downloads, to move data fast.

Read-only persistent disks on Google Cloud

2023-11-20 · 2104 words · 10 minute read

persistent-disk · gcp

Did you know that a Google Cloud Persistent Disk (PD) can be read-only attached to up to 10 instances with full performance and at no extra cost? Check the blog for the ins and outs of using PD read-only attachments with Linux VMs, GKE, and Windows Server.

Step-by-step tutorial: SMB file storage using Google Cloud NetApp Volumes

2023-09-10 · 1601 words · 8 minute read

gcp · netapp-volumes

Google Cloud NetApp Volumes is the easy way to deliver SMB file services in Google Cloud. In this step-by-step tutorial you'll go from zero to SMB share delivered!

Using Google BigQuery Sandbox: A tutorial

2019-11-09 · 1549 words · 8 minute read

GCP · BigQuery

Check out this tutorial to try out the Google BigQuery Sandbox (no cost, no credit card needed) to analyze your own data and then combine it with a public weather dataset. I never knew a data warehouse could be this easy!