About Google Cloud Storage

[Google Cloud Storage](https://cloud.google.com/storage/) is one of the most commonly used solutions to store data in specialized storage classes optimized for your use case. Google Cloud Storage provides a scalable and secure option to store the data created through your Astro pipeline, no matter the format.

Use Case

Storing a variety of data objects, such as raw files ingested from various sources or logging information, is a common reason to combine Astro with Google Cloud Storage. With Astro, you can effortlessly orchestrate pipelines to start once a file lands in the Google Cloud in an asynchronous cost-effective way by using specialized [deferrable operators](/docs/learn/deferrable-operators/) to watch for changes. Thanks to Astro's support of [Airflow 2.4](/blog/apache-airflow-2-4-everything-you-need-to-know/) it’s possible to use dataset-driven scheduling with GCS objects to further optimize your data pipelines.