Where should large training image files be stored?
Why B is the answer
Cloud Storage
Cloud Storage suits large files such as images. BigQuery suits tabular training data.
In detail
- Cloud Storage suits large training files.
- Cloud Storage suits large files.
Use case
An illustrative scenario, not a real incident.
A team keeps millions of images in Cloud Storage, and tabular labels in BigQuery.
See it in different ways
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Q{"What kind of data?"}
Q -->|"Large files"| A0["Cloud Storage"]
Q -->|"Tables"| A1["BigQuery"]Key point: Cloud Storage holds large files.
Why the other options are wrong
- A. A notebook's local disk only
- A local disk is lost with the notebook.
- C. Bigtable
- Bigtable is for wide-column data.
- D. Memorystore
- Memorystore is a cache.

