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- Okay, let's talk about loading data. So to move or load data, we have basically the options that you see here. There's a storage transfer service, this is a service, a software-based service that will allow you to move data into or out of Google Cloud. You can use that to move data to Cloud Storage primarily. Storage transfer appliance, it's an actual physical appliance that you order and then Google Cloud will ship that to you, you upload your data. This is really for very large data. That is then shipped back to Google Cloud and Google Cloud will upload it to Cloud Storage. Gsutil is a command line utility for Cloud Storage. I'll talk more about that in a moment. Database migration service is for migrating databases. So if you have an on-premises MySQL database for example, or Postgres or SQL Server, you can use the database migration service to migrate or move the contents of that database into Cloud SQL as the destination in Google Cloud. And BigQuery data transfer service, as…

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