Your company acquired a healthcare startup and must retain its customers' medical information for up to 4 more years, depending on when it was created. Your corporate policy is to securely retain this data, and then delete it as soon as regulations allow. Which approach should you take?

Storing data in Cloud Storage with lifecycle management is the most efficient and compliant solution. Cloud Storage is a durable and secure object storage service suitable for sensitive data. Lifecycle management policies automate the deletion of objects based on age, ensuring data is removed precisely when regulations allow without manual intervention. Google Drive is not designed for programmatic data retention and deletion at scale, making manual deletion impractical and error-prone for large datasets. Anonymizing data with Cloud DLP is useful for privacy but doesn't fulfill the requirement to delete the original data after a specific retention period. A nightly batch script could work but requires custom development, maintenance, and careful error handling, making it less robust and more complex than Cloud Storage's native lifecycle management.