Tech riderRev. 4 Oct 2026
Google Cloud Managed Lustre
- 1Runs onAPI, Linux, Web
- 2CostsNot stated by the maker
- 3Supported protocolsLustre over TCP
- 4Managed backupsNo
- 5Scaling modelprovisioned
4 lines stated Written from the maker's own pages: cloud.google.com

Overview
Google Cloud Managed Lustre is ranked #13 of 29 in distributed file system software on Specifiction. It runs on API, Linux, Web. There is no free plan.
Google Cloud Managed Lustre plans and pricing
All plans1000 MB/s/TiB Free Hourly pricing varies by month; monthly pricing is hourly price multiplied by hours in the month. Provisioned capacity is billed, including unused capacity · Throughput and IOPS included cloud.google.com · 4 Oct 2026
500 MB/s/TiB Free Hourly pricing varies by month; monthly pricing is hourly price multiplied by hours in the month. Provisioned capacity is billed, including unused capacity · Throughput and IOPS included cloud.google.com · 4 Oct 2026
250 MB/s/TiB Free Hourly pricing varies by month; monthly pricing is hourly price multiplied by hours in the month. Provisioned capacity is billed, including unused capacity · Throughput and IOPS included cloud.google.com · 4 Oct 2026
125 MB/s/TiB Free Hourly pricing varies by month; monthly pricing is hourly price multiplied by hours in the month. Provisioned capacity is billed, including unused capacity · Throughput and IOPS included cloud.google.com · 4 Oct 2026
Dynamic (25 MB/s/TB) Free Hourly pricing varies by month; monthly pricing is hourly price multiplied by hours in the month. Provisioned capacity is billed, including unused capacity · Throughput and IOPS included cloud.google.com · 4 Oct 2026
Compared on distributed file system software
- Free plan
- Nocloud.google.com
- Paid from
- $0.06/mocloud.google.com
- Supported protocols
- Lustre over TCPcloud.google.com
- Managed backups
- Nocloud.google.com
- Scaling model
- provisionedcloud.google.com
Facts
- Purpose
- Google Cloud Managed Lustre is a fully managed parallel file system optimized for AI and high-performance computing applications.docs.cloud.google.com · 4 Oct 2026
- Performance
- The service supports throughput up to 10 TBps and storage capacity up to 84,016,000 GiB (80.1 PiB).docs.cloud.google.com · 4 Oct 2026
- Compatibility
- POSIX compliance supports compatibility with existing applications, tools, and workflows.docs.cloud.google.com · 4 Oct 2026
- Compute integrations
- Instances can be mounted to Compute Engine VMs and Google Kubernetes Engine clusters.docs.cloud.google.com · 4 Oct 2026
- Cloud Storage integration
- Managed Lustre can import data from and export data to Cloud Storage, with incremental transfers that copy new or changed files.docs.cloud.google.com · 4 Oct 2026
- Security
- Data stored in a Managed Lustre file system is encrypted at rest, and data in transit to and within Google Cloud is encrypted.docs.cloud.google.com · 4 Oct 2026
- Maintenance
- Per-instance maintenance policies let customers specify maintenance windows and exclusion periods.docs.cloud.google.com · 4 Oct 2026
- Capacity limits
- The maximum file size is 0.5 PiB, and the maximum number of instances per project is 20.docs.cloud.google.com · 4 Oct 2026
- Transfer limit
- Only one data transfer operation per instance can be active at a time.docs.cloud.google.com · 4 Oct 2026
- Intended workloads
- The documentation identifies HPC simulations, modeling and analysis, and machine-learning training and inference as use cases.docs.cloud.google.com · 4 Oct 2026
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Sources
- docs.cloud.google.com/managed-lustre/docs/overview· checked 4 Oct 2026
- docs.cloud.google.com/managed-lustre/docs/create-instance· checked 4 Oct 2026
- docs.cloud.google.com/managed-lustre/docs/transfer-data· checked 4 Oct 2026
- docs.cloud.google.com/managed-lustre/docs/maintenance· checked 4 Oct 2026
- docs.cloud.google.com/managed-lustre/docs/quotas· checked 4 Oct 2026
- cloud.google.com/products/managed-lustre/pricing· checked 4 Oct 2026



