File storage – Cloud Filestore

Cloud Filestore is a Google-managed, high-performance, network-attached storage for applications that require a (shared) filesystem interface to store files in a folder structure. Filestore’s most common use cases are storing website content, users’ home directories, images, or videos for editing, and storing data for batch jobs such as rendering.

Each created Filestore instance represents a single file share that can be mounted using the NFSv3 protocol (a networking protocol for distributed file sharing) to Compute Engine VMs, GKE, and even workstations on-premises, assuming they have network connectivity to such a Filestore instance.

To interact with Filestore, you can use the Google Cloud console, APIs, or gcloud commands. By default, Filestore automatically encrypts your data at rest. The access to a file share can be controlled based on the client’s IP address. The following table presents the available service tiers...