Is the best practice to create a block for reading files from GCS or using

prefect_gcp.cloud_storage

as described here https://prefecthq.github.io/prefect-gcp/. I'm tryin to provide some direction to our data engineers

Hey @Brad Clark! This is a great question and I think that it depends on what you’re trying to do. The

GCS

block can read and write file and full directories from GCS but doesn’t offer many configuration options. The tasks in

prefect_gcp.cloud_storage

offer more configuration options, but don’t support reading and writing full directories out of the box. The amount of configuration that you need would determine which to reach for. Long term, you can expect to see a lot of the GCS functionality centralize in the

GcsBucket

block which resides in

prefect_gcp.cloud_storage

. Our goal is to make that the go to solution for interacting with GCS buckets.