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A data analytics company needs to store long-term regulatory compliance backups of historical transaction logs. The files must be retained for five years to satisfy compliance mandates, are expected to be accessed less than once a year, and require the lowest monthly at-rest storage price while maintaining immediate data availability when needed.
Which Cloud Storage class should you choose for this dataset?
Archive Storage is Google Cloud's lowest-cost storage class designed specifically for data archiving, long-term preservation, and digital disaster recovery. It offers ultra-low at-rest monthly storage costs with millisecond-to-sub-second access latency when reading data, unlike traditional tape-based archive solutions.
Because the data is retained for five years and read less than once annually, the significantly lower at-rest storage cost of Archive Storage far outweighs its higher per-GB retrieval fees, providing the most cost-effective storage architecture for compliance.
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