Google Cloud Filestore

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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.cloud.google.com · read 30 Sep 2026

Cloud Run

Filestore instances can be mounted directly to Cloud Run workloads as local directories over NFS.cloud.google.com · read 30 Sep 2026

Data protection

Filestore supports snapshots, backups, and replication of data to an instance in another region.cloud.google.com · read 30 Sep 2026

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.docs.cloud.google.com · read 30 Sep 2026

Google Kubernetes Engine

Filestore integrates with the GKE CSI driver so multiple pods can access the same file system.cloud.google.com · read 30 Sep 2026

NFSv3 limitation

NFSv3 lacks client and server authentication and encryption, according to the protocol documentation.docs.cloud.google.com · read 30 Sep 2026

NFSv4.1 security

NFSv4.1 supports Kerberos-based client and server authentication, message integrity checks, and in-transit encryption.docs.cloud.google.com · read 30 Sep 2026

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.docs.cloud.google.com · read 30 Sep 2026

Protocols

Filestore supports NFSv3 across all service tiers and NFSv4.1 on zonal, regional, and enterprise tiers.docs.cloud.google.com · read 30 Sep 2026

Purpose

Filestore is a fully managed shared NFS file service for applications that need persistent file storage.cloud.google.com · read 30 Sep 2026

Regional availability

Filestore Regional is described as providing 99.99% regional availability for critical applications that need resilience to zonal outages.cloud.google.com · read 30 Sep 2026

Scale

The product page lists capacity up to 100 TiB, throughput up to 26 GiB/s, and up to 920K IOPS.cloud.google.com · read 30 Sep 2026

Trial credit

The product page offers $300 in free credits to try Filestore.cloud.google.com · read 30 Sep 2026

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