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October 07, 2024
Deletion protection is now generally available for Filestore instances.
September 30, 2024
NFSv4.1 protocol support, integrated with Managed Service for Microsoft Active Directory, is now generally available for zonal, regional, and enterprise instances.
June 04, 2024
Filestore instances no longer require reserved capacity for certain internal operations. For more information, see Monitoring instances.
May 23, 2024
The regional service tier is now generally available.
May 02, 2024
You can now revert an instance to a snapshot state. This feature is generally available for instances created in the zonal and enterprise service tiers.
Filestore supports IP-based access control for your volumes. You can now use the Filestore CSI driver to configure IP-based access control at volume creation.
March 28, 2024
You can use CMEK organization policies to manage key usage with your new Filestore resources. This feature is now generally available.
February 22, 2024
NFSv4.1 protocol support, integrated with Managed Service for Microsoft Active Directory, is now available in Preview for Filestore enterprise and zonal instances.
February 13, 2024
Filestore is now available in Johannesburg, South Africa (africa-south1 region).
January 16, 2024
Zonal tier backups are now generally available.
November 02, 2023
The zonal service tier is now generally available.
October 23, 2023
Filestore is now available in Berlin (europe-west10 region).
October 16, 2023
October 02, 2023
Filestore enterprise tier backups are now generally available.
September 25, 2023
Filestore is now available in Dammam (me-central2 region).
August 10, 2023
The zonal service tier with options for a higher or lower capacity band is now available in Preview.
July 27, 2023
Filestore multishares for GKE now supports up to 80 shares per instance (GA).
June 30, 2023
Support for revert snapshot operations is now available for high scale SSD instances (Preview).
May 22, 2023
April 24, 2023
Filestore is now available in Doha (me-central1 region).
Filestore is now available in Turin (europe-west12 region).
April 17, 2023
Support for Filestore as an NFS datastore for Google Cloud VMware Engine (GCVE) is now generally available.
April 13, 2023
March 13, 2023
March 10, 2023
Support for Filestore as an NFS datastore for Google Cloud VMware Engine (GCVE) is now available in Preview.
March 06, 2023
Filestore data is compliant with at-rest and in-use data residency requirements pursuant with Google Cloud terms of service.
February 28, 2023
High Scale and Enterprise tier instances now support overlapping permissions (GA).
November 23, 2022
Filestore (Basic HDD and Basic SSD tiers) are now in compliance with the FedRAMP Moderate standard.
November 16, 2022
Filestore Backups for High Scale and Enterprise tier instances is available in Preview.
October 27, 2022
Filestore is now available in Columbus (us-east5 region).
Filestore is now available in Dallas (us-south1 region).
Filestore is now available in Tel Aviv (me-west1 region).
September 29, 2022
Filestore High Scale and Enterprise tier instances now support IP address allocations with the /26 prefix.
August 29, 2022
Filestore is now available in Madrid, Spain (europe-southwest1 region).
Filestore is now available in Paris, France (europe-west9 region).
Filestore is now available in Milan, Italy (europe-west8 region).
July 22, 2022
Preview: Filestore Multishares for GKE provides a file service option for GKE users that require multiple, smaller NFS-mounted Persistent Volumes from a single Filestore instance.
Each Persistent Volume can start with just 100GiB of storage, providing a more cost-efficient option for customers.
For more information, see Filestore Multishares for GKE.
June 30, 2022
Filestore High Scale SSD tier is generally available (GA).
April 21, 2022
Filestore is now available in Santiago, Chile (southamerica-west1 region) for Basic HDD and Basic SSD instances.
April 11, 2022
You can now use customer-managed encryption keys (CMEK) to protect data at rest in Filestore's High Scale SSD Tier instances.
- High Scale SSD instances stop and restart automatically when the state of an associated key changes
- This feature is currently in Preview
December 16, 2021
The following Filestore features are now generally available (GA):
- Enterprise tier
- Customer-managed encryption key support
- Snapshots
- Private services access support
Filestore snapshots now support reverting to a snapshot.
October 05, 2021
You can now get support for preview features for Filestore. For details see the Support page.
September 30, 2021
You can now use Customer-Managed Encryption Keys (CMEK) to protect all data at rest in Filestore's Enterprise tier instances. CMEK in Filestore is a preview feature. For more information, see Encrypt data with customer-managed encryption keys.
Filestore's Enterprise tier now supports snapshots. A snapshot is a preserved state of your file share data that can be used to restore data. For more information, see the snapshots documentation page.
August 03, 2021
Filestore is available in the northamerica-northeast2 (Toronto) region. See Regions and zones.
August 02, 2021
Filestore now has a new Enterprise tier, which lets you create 1–10 TiB regional instances that can scale up and down with your storage needs.
Filestore now supports private services access, which lets you create instances on a Shared VPC network in service projects.
June 29, 2021
Filestore is available in the europe-central2 (Warsaw) region. See Regions and zones.
Filestore is now available in Delhi (asia-south2 region).
June 25, 2021
You can now secure your Filestore instances using a VPC service perimeter. For details, see Securing instances with a service perimeter.
June 21, 2021
Filestore is now available in Melbourne (australia-southeast2 region).
March 15, 2021
Filestore is available in the europe-central2 (Warsaw) region. See Regions and zones.
December 22, 2020
IP-based access control is now generally available.
November 18, 2020
Filestore now supports access over VPN. You can mount Filestore file shares on an on-premises client and clients on a remote VPC with this new capability. To learn how to set up a VPN connection with Cloud VPN, see Creating an HA VPN gateway to a Peer VPN gateway.
September 25, 2020
Filestore backups has launched to beta. Now you can back up your Filestore instances.
September 01, 2020
Filestore Troubleshooting page published. Now you can troubleshoot common Filestore issues.
June 08, 2020
High Scale SSD tier released to beta. This new service tier for Filestore provides greater performance and lets you grow and shrink capacity between 60–320 TB.
IP-based access control released to beta. This feature lets you control access to file shares by the IP addresses of clients.
Filestore service tier name change:
- Standard tier is now called Basic HDD.
- Premium tier is now called Basic SSD.
- You can still use the old tier names and they continue to be supported.
This change may affect you if you use:
* The gcloud beta filestore command-line tool (beta).
* The Filestore beta API (v1beta1).
* The Cloud Console with the Filestore API.
* The Cloud Console with the gcloud tool.
For details, see New service tier names.
Filestore is available in the asia-southeast2 (Jakarta) region. See Regions and zones.
May 19, 2020
Learn how to create low disk space alerts for your Filestore instances.
April 20, 2020
Filestore is available in the us-west4 (Las Vegas) region. See Regions and zones.
January 24, 2020
Cloud Filestore is now available in the Seoul (asia-northeast3) region.
April 08, 2019
GA release of Cloud Filestore
- Cloud Filestore is now generally available for use.
July 12, 2018
Beta release of Cloud Filestore
- The Beta version of Cloud Filestore is now available for use.