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Google Cloud Storage¶
What it is¶
Google Cloud Storage (GCS) is Google Cloud Platform's object-storage service — GCP's equivalent of Amazon S3. It stores objects (up to 5 TB each) in buckets scoped to GCP projects and locations (regional, multi-region, dual-region), exposes a REST API + gRPC API, and provides eleven-9s durability via cross-region replication.
Why it shows up on this wiki¶
GCS is one of the two production backup destinations PlanetScale writes to, depending on which cloud the customer's database cluster runs on. Per the 2024-07-30 post (Source: sources/2026-04-21-planetscale-faster-backups-with-sharding): "It will store the backups themselves in either Amazon S3 or Google GCS, depending on which cloud the database cluster resides in."
Minimal-viable stub page — anchor for cross-references from backup sources. Deeper treatment if a GCS-internals post is ingested.
Seen in¶
- sources/2026-04-21-planetscale-faster-backups-with-sharding — canonical wiki disclosure of GCS as one of the two PlanetScale backup destinations (paired with S3 for AWS deployments). Stored backups are encrypted at rest.