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FlamingMoe
FlamingMoe

Reputation: 2994

Google Drive to be used as our SaaS storage

I've seen the recently Google Drive pricing changes and they are amazing.

This changes everything !

We have a SaaS website in which we keep customer's files. Does anyone know if Google Drive can be used to keep this kind of files/service or it's just for personal use?

Does it have a robust API for uploading, downloading, and create public URL's to access files as S3 have ?

Edit: I saw the SDK here (https://developers.google.com/drive/v2/reference/). The main concern is if this service can be used for keeping customer's files, I mean, a SaaS website offering a service and keeping files there.

Upvotes: 4

Views: 2681

Answers (3)

seanpj
seanpj

Reputation: 6755

Sorry to spoil your party, before you get too excited, look at this issue. It is in Google's own product, and has been active since November 2013 (i.e.4 months). Now imagine re-syncing a few hundred GB of files once a while. Or better, ask your customers to do it with their files after you recommended Drive to them.

Upvotes: 0

pinoyyid
pinoyyid

Reputation: 22286

Does anyone know if Google Drive can be used to keep this kind of files/service or it's just for personal use?

Yes you can. That's exactly why the Drive SDK exists. You can either store files under the user's own account, or under an "app" account called a Service Account.

Does it have a robust API for uploading, downloading, and create public URL's to access files as S3 have ?

"Robust" is a bit subjective, but there is certainly an API.

There are a number of techniques you can use to access the stored files. Look at https://developers.google.com/drive/v2/reference/files to see the various URLs which are provided.

Por true public access, you will probably need to have the files under a public directory. See https://support.google.com/drive/answer/2881970?hl=en

NB. If you are in the TB space, be very aware that Drive has a bunch of quotas, some of which are unpublished. Make sure you test any proof of concept at full scale.

Upvotes: 2

Michael - sqlbot
Michael - sqlbot

Reputation: 178966

This doesn't really change anything.

“Google Drive storage is for users and Google Cloud Storage is for developers.”

— https://support.google.com/a/answer/2490100?hl=en

The analogous service with comparable functionality to S3 is Google Cloud Storage, which is remarkably similar to S3 in pricing.

https://developers.google.com/storage/pricing

Upvotes: 3

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