Looks like it'd work.
Google Drive offers a lot more than file upload and download though - it's a whole platform. So you'd have a situation where the integration might work OK for fetching files but file organisation, versioning, permissions and so on might hard to lock down the multiple places these can be controlled. It's a question of whether you want all the features or not - for just storage it seems over-kill. If you want to make use of the features then you've got to weigh the cost of developing and maintaining against the API to rolling your own. There's also the risk of not being able to recover all your assets easily if you need to.
We did many integrations with google maps APIs over the years. They involved costly re-writes numerous times and sometimes licencing costs forced complete withdrawal to other map APIs like BING. They were incredibly good though, at the time, and the APIs are always nice and well supported.
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