You must move 75 TB of data into Cloud Storage following Google recommended practices. What should you do?
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Correct answer: Move the data onto a Transfer Appliance and use the Transfer Appliance Rehydrator to decrypt and import the data into Cloud Storage..
Why this is the answer
For 75 TB of data, a Transfer Appliance is the recommended Google Cloud practice for large-scale offline data transfer, especially when network bandwidth is a constraint or the transfer would take an unacceptably long time over the internet. The Transfer Appliance Rehydrator is specifically designed to decrypt and import data from the appliance into Cloud Storage efficiently. Using Cloud Dataprep is incorrect because it's a data preparation service, not a decryption or import tool for Transfer Appliance. While gsutil can transfer data, for 75 TB, direct network transfer (even with resumable uploads or streaming) would be significantly slower and less reliable than a Transfer Appliance.
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