Blobstore or Cloud Storage for store photo

Question

I design an mobile app which can upload photo on GAE. These photos can not be changed, only displayed on other mobiles. Through my application, the picture will be sent only on GAE, and downloaded to the mobile clients. That's all!

I only use GAE for store photos, and datastore for store photo's data string (Like position, age...)

Do you think I have to go on the Cloud Storage (Because I would be locked after a while?), or I can stay on the Blobstore ?

I fear that in the future the Blobstore was deprecated..

Thanks !

Answer 1

Blobstore vs. Cloud Storage is an ongoing debate. check out these resources:

Google Blobstore versus Google cloud storage

If you're storing an image Blob in App Engine, should you put it in the Blobstore or Google Cloud Storage?

Comparing Blobstore and Google Cloud Storage

Answer 2

Use GCS because:

• Google is moving away from the blobstore
• GCS offers more functionality like acl, folders, and more.
• You can use filenames and a blobstore like serving url for images
• You can create serving url's for non images
• GCS is cheap and has a free default bucket

Answer 3

Relative to Google itself, there no good reasons to use blobstore to store files because Cloud Storage is made to do this.

I think Google will deprecate the Blobstore soon...