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Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer Associate Cloud Engineer · Domain 2: Planning and implementing a cloud solution

Compute Engine disks: Persistent Disk and Hyperdisk types, regional disks and local SSD

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Compute Engine VMs use block storage for their boot and data disks. The main choices are Persistent Disk, Hyperdisk and local SSD, and they differ in performance, durability and how they're priced.

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