Google Cloud Filestore
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Spec sheet
- Purpose
- Filestore is a fully managed shared NFS file service for applications that need persistent file storage.Read 30 Sep 2026 · cloud.google.com
- Capacity tiers
- The product page lists Zonal and Regional capacity of 1–100 TiB, and GKE multi-share capacity of 1–10 TiB with up to 80 shares.Read 30 Sep 2026 · cloud.google.com
- Cloud Run
- Filestore instances can be mounted directly to Cloud Run workloads as local directories over NFS.Read 30 Sep 2026 · cloud.google.com
- Data protection
- Filestore supports snapshots, backups, and replication of data to an instance in another region.Read 30 Sep 2026 · cloud.google.com
- Encryption
- Filestore encrypts customer content at rest by default and supports customer-managed Cloud KMS keys for instances and backups on zonal, regional, and enterprise tiers.Read 30 Sep 2026 · docs.cloud.google.com
- Google Kubernetes Engine
- Filestore integrates with the GKE CSI driver so multiple pods can access the same file system.Read 30 Sep 2026 · cloud.google.com
- NFSv3 limitation
- NFSv3 lacks client and server authentication and encryption, according to the protocol documentation.Read 30 Sep 2026 · docs.cloud.google.com
- NFSv4.1 security
- NFSv4.1 supports Kerberos-based client and server authentication, message integrity checks, and in-transit encryption.Read 30 Sep 2026 · docs.cloud.google.com
- Other clients
- Filestore can connect to Compute Engine VMs, GKE clusters, Google Cloud VMware Engine, on-premises machines, Cloud Run services, and AI agent fleets and sandboxes.Read 30 Sep 2026 · docs.cloud.google.com
- Protocols
- Filestore supports NFSv3 across all service tiers and NFSv4.1 on zonal, regional, and enterprise tiers.Read 30 Sep 2026 · docs.cloud.google.com
- Regional availability
- Filestore Regional is described as providing 99.99% regional availability for critical applications that need resilience to zonal outages.Read 30 Sep 2026 · cloud.google.com
- Scale
- The product page lists capacity up to 100 TiB, throughput up to 26 GiB/s, and up to 920K IOPS.Read 30 Sep 2026 · cloud.google.com
- Trial credit
- The product page offers $300 in free credits to try Filestore.Read 30 Sep 2026 · cloud.google.com
Plans and prices
Filestore Zonal - custom performance on (per IOPS) $0.01 a month Starting at $0.0145 per month Custom performance on · per IOPS Read 30 Sep 2026 · cloud.google.com
Filestore Regional - custom performance on (per IOPS) $0.03 a month Starting at $0.027 per month Custom performance on · per IOPS Read 30 Sep 2026 · cloud.google.com
Filestore Zonal - custom performance on (instance capacity) $0.12 a month Starting at $0.12 per GiB per month Custom performance on · instance capacity Read 30 Sep 2026 · cloud.google.com
Filestore Regional - custom performance on (instance capacity) $0.21 a month Starting at $0.21 per GiB per month Custom performance on · instance capacity Read 30 Sep 2026 · cloud.google.com
Filestore Zonal - custom performance off $0.25 a month Starting at $0.25 per GiB per month Instance capacity Read 30 Sep 2026 · cloud.google.com
Filestore Regional - custom performance off $0.45 a month Starting at $0.45 per GiB per month Instance capacity Read 30 Sep 2026 · cloud.google.com
Filestore Zonal - custom performance on (per instance) $20 a month Starting at $20 per month Custom performance on · per instance Read 30 Sep 2026 · cloud.google.com
Filestore Regional - custom performance on (per instance) $40 a month Starting at $40 per month Custom performance on · per instance Read 30 Sep 2026 · cloud.google.com
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