How-to Guides

Working with Buckets

• Creating Storage Buckets

  Create buckets in which you store your data.

• Getting Bucket Information

  List a bucket's contents, and get the properties of a bucket.

• Managing Buckets

  Change a bucket's labels or default storage class, and delete a bucket.

• Moving and Renaming Buckets

  Learn how to move or rename your bucket.

Working with Objects

• Uploading, Downloading, and Deleting Objects

  Store, access, and remove objects in your Google Cloud Storage bucket.

• Copying and Moving Objects

  Copy and move objects within and between Google Cloud Storage buckets.

• Changing Storage Classes

  Change the default storage class of your bucket, and change the storage class of individual objects within your bucket.

• Viewing and Editing Object Metadata

  Work with the metadata for objects stored in Cloud Storage.

• Managing Object Lifecycles

  Set your bucket to automatically delete or change the storage class of objects within it when specified criteria are met.

• Using Object Versioning

  Set your bucket to retain older versions of your objects when they are deleted or overwritten.

• Using Customer-Supplied Encryption Keys

  Encrypt data on the server side using your own encryption keys.

• Streaming Transfers

  Stream data to and from Google Cloud Storage.

Controlling Access

• Making Data Public

  Make objects you control publicly readable.

• Managing IAM Permissions

  Use Identity and Access Management (IAM) permissions to give users access to buckets and objects.

• Creating and Managing Access Control Lists

  Use access control lists to give users specific types of access to buckets and data.

• Sharing and Collaboration

  Follow several different scenarios for controlling access to your data.

• Creating Signed URLs with gsutil

  Create signed URLs, which give users time-limited access to your data, with the gsutil command-line tool.

• Creating Signed URLs with a Program

  Create signed URLs, which give users time-limited access to your data, with your own program.

Accessing Public Data

• Accessing Public Data

  Access data stored in Google Cloud Storage that is available to the general public.

Using with Other Products

• Interoperability

  Discover how Google Cloud Storage tools can be used to work with other, non-Google, cloud storage systems.

• Working with Big Data

  Learn how to use Google Cloud Storage to store and work with Big Data.

• Registering Object Changes^BETA

  Enable and configure notifications that are sent to Google Cloud Pub/Sub when objects in your buckets change.

• Analyzing Access Logs

  Work with the access logs for your buckets, such as by analyzing them with Google BigQuery.

• Cross Origin Resource Sharing

  Learn about CORS and how to configure your buckets to return CORS-compliant responses.