Many questions and answers on Blobstore and Google Cloud Storage (GCS) are two or three years old, while in those years the situation has changed dramatically. GCS is no longer a standalone service. Now integrated with Google App Engine (GAE).
Google seems to be pushing GCS so hard that Blobstore is out of date , for example,
The file API feature used here to write files to Blobstore has been deprecated and will be removed in the future, in support of writing files to Google Cloud Storage and using Blobstore to serve them.
I think the time has come to switch to GCS.
For example, www.example.com- this is a site built on GAE, and example.jpg- this is an image stored in GCS, I want to serve the image using the URLhttp://www.example.com/images/example.jpg
This was not possible, but now it is possible thanks to integration .
I found this:
https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/python/googlecloudstorageclient/
says:
When the Blobstore API is used in conjunction with the Image API, you get a powerful way to serve the images, since you can directly serve images from the GCS, bypassing the App Engine application, which saves on instance cost per hour.
I know how to "bypass the App Engine application . " Is there any example of how to get around GAE while serving images using the Blobstore and image APIs?