Cloud Filestore Service Level Agreement (SLA)

Last modified: December 15, 2021

During the Term of the agreement under which Google has agreed to provide Google Cloud Platform to Customer (as applicable, the "Agreement"), the Covered Service will provide a Monthly Uptime Percentage to Customer as follows (the "Service Level Objective" or "SLO"):

Covered Service

Monthly Uptime Percentage

Cloud Filestore Basic SSD or Cloud Filestore Basic HDD

>= 99.9%

Cloud Filestore Enterprise

>= 99.99%

If Google does not meet the SLO, and if Customer meets its obligations under this SLA, Customer will be eligible to receive the Financial Credits described below. Monthly Uptime Percentage and Financial Credit are determined on a calendar month basis per instance. This SLA states Customer's sole and exclusive remedy for any failure by Google to meet the SLO. Capitalized terms used in this SLA, but not defined in this SLA, have the meaning set forth in the Agreement. If the Agreement authorizes the resale or supply of Google Cloud Platform under a Google Cloud partner or reseller program, then all references to Customer in this SLA mean Partner or Reseller (as applicable), and any Financial Credit(s) will only apply for impacted Partner or Reseller order(s) under the Agreement.

Definitions

  • The following definitions apply to the SLA.
  • "Covered Service" means a Cloud Filestore Basic HDD, Basic SSD, or Enterprise tier instance.
  • "Downtime" means all requests to the applicable Covered Service instance fail.
  • "Downtime Period" means five or more consecutive minutes of Downtime. Intermittent Downtime for a period of less than five minutes will not count towards any Downtime Periods. Downtime as part of Scheduled Maintenance will not count towards any Downtime Period.
  • "Financial Credit" means the following for the Cloud Filestore Basic HDD or Basic SSD tier:

Monthly Uptime Percentage

Percentage of monthly bill for the applicable Covered Service instance that does not meet SLO that will be credited to Customer's future monthly bills

99.0%–< 99.9%

10%

95.0%–< 99.0%

25%

<95.0%

50%
      • "Financial Credit" means the following for the Cloud Filestore Enterprise tier:

      Monthly Uptime Percentage

      Percentage of monthly bill for the applicable Covered Service instance that does not meet SLO that will be credited to Customer's future monthly bills

      99.0%–< 99.99%

      10%

      95.0%–< 99.0%

      25%

      <95.0%

      50%

      • "Monthly Uptime Percentage" means total number of minutes in a month, minus the number of minutes of Downtime suffered from all Downtime Periods in a month, divided by the total number of minutes in a month.
      • "Scheduled Maintenance" is Downtime related to network, hardware, or software maintenance or upgrades. Scheduled Maintenance will be performed at Google’s discretion

      Customer Must Request Financial Credit

      In order to receive any of the Financial Credits described above, Customer must  notify Google technical support within 30 days from the time Customer becomes eligible to receive a Financial Credit. Failure to comply with this requirement will forfeit Customer’s right to receive a Financial Credit.

      Maximum Financial Credit

      The aggregate maximum number of Financial Credits to be issued by Google to Customer for any and all Downtime Periods that occur in a single billing month will not exceed 50% of the amount due by Customer for the applicable Covered Service for the applicable month. Financial Credits will be made in the form of a monetary credit applied to future use of the Covered Service and will be applied within 60 days after the Financial Credit was requested.

      SLA Exclusions

      The SLA does not apply to any (a) features or Services designated pre-general availability (unless otherwise set forth in the associated Documentation); (b) features or Services excluded from the SLA (in the associated Documentation); (c) features or Services that have been deprecated; or (d) errors (i) caused by factors outside of Google’s reasonable control; (ii) that resulted from Customer's software or hardware or third party software or hardware, or both; (iii) that resulted from abuses or other behaviors that violate the Agreement; or (iv) that resulted from quotas listed in the Documentation.