Cloud Storage Rapid turbocharges object storage for AI, analytics
At Google Cloud Next ’26 we announced Cloud Storage Rapid, a family of object storage capabilities for data-intensive workloads like AI and analytics. Out of the gate, Cloud Storage Rapid consists of Rapid Bucket (formerly Rapid Storage), a high-performance zonal object storage offering, and Rapid Cache (formerly Anywhere Cache), which accelerates reads on-demand and colocates compute and data for workloads in existing buckets.
Cloud Storage Rapid is our response to the generational shift in how organizations build with AI. Teams are training trillion-parameter models, deploying inference at global scale, and building autonomous agents that reason over vast amounts of enterprise data. While accelerators like GPUs and TPUs often get the spotlight, they have a critical dependency: storage.
Storage is the engine that feeds accelerators during training, and the fast-access layer that makes real-time inference responsive. But as models scale, storage performance can be a bottleneck. Every time an AI/ML cluster...
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