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Colossus for Rapid Storage
Colossus’s performance comes from its stateful protocol, which plays a pivotal role in the new Rapid Storage offering launched at Google Cloud Next '25.
As we discussed in a recent blog post, Colossus supports our most demanding performance-focused products with sophisticated SSD placement techniques that deliver low latency and massive scale. To make it as easy as possible to integrate Rapid Storage into your applications, we are also updating our SDKs to support gRPC streaming-based appends and expose a simple application-oriented API. Rapid Storage also natively enables Hierarchical Namespace as part of its zonal bucket type, providing enhanced performance, consistency, and folder-oriented APIs.
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