Filestore
High-performance, scalable, fully managed file storage
Filestore is a managed service for shared file storage. A native scale-out file system, it offers high performance and large capacity, with simple and flexible use.
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Features
Scales to meet needs of high-performance workloads
Filestore offers high throughput and IOPS as well as low latency storage operations for workloads such as high performance computing, electronic design automation, media rendering, data analytics, or other metadata intensive applications. Scale up or down IOPS as needed without having to affect capacity. Filestore supports capacity up to 100 TiB and throughput of 26 GiB/s and 920K IOPS.
99.99% regional availability SLA supports enterprise apps
Filestore Regional is built for critical applications (for example, SAP) requiring regional availability to ensure resiliency to zonal outages. Both Filestore Zonal and Regional offer non-disruptive upgrades to increase availability. Avoid the need to rewrite your enterprise applications and jumpstart your migration to the cloud. Leverage the flexibility of Filestore to optimize performance to the specific needs of your individual workloads.
Protect your data with snapshots, replication, and backups
Filestore offers instantaneous snapshots and backups to help you protect your data easily. Backup your file share, set up a regular backup schedule, or take snapshots of your instances anytime you need. For additional protection, replicate your data to another instance in a different region. When it comes to recovering your data, recover some or all of your data from a prior snapshot recovery point in 10 minutes or less.
Simple, performant, available storage for GKE workloads
For apps running in GKE that require file storage, Filestore’s fully managed NFS solution supports stateful and stateless applications. With an integrated and managed GKE Container Storage Interface (CSI) driver, multiple pods can have shared file system access to the same data. This shared access can lower costs by avoiding multiple copies of the same data for each container. It can increase availability, with fast failover of pods between nodes, and flexibly share performance across multiple shares.
Scale GCVE datastore capacity independently from compute
Filestore Zonal and Filestore Regional are VMware-certified as NFS datastores with Google Cloud VMware Engine. Right-size vCPUs and storage capacity independently to meet compute and storage requirements for your storage intensive VMs. Leverage vSAN for low latency VM requirements and scale Filestore from TBs to PBs for the capacity-hungry VMs.
Filestore options
| Filestore options | Understand the features and performance differences between Filestore tiers. | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Service tier | Description | Best for | Capacity |
Filestore Zonal | High zonal availability and high performance, for workloads such as HPC, EDA, media rendering, data analytics, GKE. | High throughput and IOPS as well as low latency storage operations. | 1 - 100 TiB |
Filestore Regional | Highest, regional availability for critical applications (for example, SAP) requiring resiliency to zonal outages. | Enterprise workloads such as SAP, Oracle, VMware Engine. | 1 - 100 TiB |
Multi-share for GKE | Multi-shares within an instance to provide GKE shares as small as 10 GiB, with regional availability. | GKE workloads that require very small shares. | 1 - 10 TiB with up to 80 shares |
For more details, including legacy information, see the service tiers page.
Filestore options
Understand the features and performance differences between Filestore tiers.
Filestore Zonal
High zonal availability and high performance, for workloads such as HPC, EDA, media rendering, data analytics, GKE.
High throughput and IOPS as well as low latency storage operations.
1 - 100 TiB
Filestore Regional
Highest, regional availability for critical applications (for example, SAP) requiring resiliency to zonal outages.
Enterprise workloads such as SAP, Oracle, VMware Engine.
1 - 100 TiB
Multi-share for GKE
Multi-shares within an instance to provide GKE shares as small as 10 GiB, with regional availability.
GKE workloads that require very small shares.
1 - 10 TiB with up to 80 shares
For more details, including legacy information, see the service tiers page.
Common Uses
Enterprise applications migration
Simplify migration of SAP and other enterprise workloads
Simplify migration of SAP and other enterprise workloads
As customers migrate to the cloud and modernize their enterprise applications (ERP, internal tools), they require a shared file storage solution for data, reports, and user information. Filestore Regional provides a simple solution for these needs with managed NFS file shares, 99.99% regional availability, and complete data protection capabilities such as backup, snapshots, and replication.
Tutorials, quickstarts, & labs
Simplify migration of SAP and other enterprise workloads
Simplify migration of SAP and other enterprise workloads
As customers migrate to the cloud and modernize their enterprise applications (ERP, internal tools), they require a shared file storage solution for data, reports, and user information. Filestore Regional provides a simple solution for these needs with managed NFS file shares, 99.99% regional availability, and complete data protection capabilities such as backup, snapshots, and replication.
High performance computing (HPC)
Easily run your high-performance workloads on Google Cloud
Easily run your high-performance workloads on Google Cloud
Scientific research, media rendering, financial modeling, genomics, and other high performance computing applications require high I/O throughput and low latency. Filestore Zonal provides the needed high-performance NFS shared storage with a simple, cost effective managed service.
Tutorials, quickstarts, & labs
Easily run your high-performance workloads on Google Cloud
Easily run your high-performance workloads on Google Cloud
Scientific research, media rendering, financial modeling, genomics, and other high performance computing applications require high I/O throughput and low latency. Filestore Zonal provides the needed high-performance NFS shared storage with a simple, cost effective managed service.
Electronic design automation
Run your EDA processes on high-performance NFS storage
Run your EDA processes on high-performance NFS storage
EDA design, placement, verification, and tape-off require scalable, high-performance NFS shared storage. Filestore was designed to handle well the variability of EDA I/O patterns, including various file sizes, combinations of sequential and random-access reads and writes, and high metadata operations rates.
Tutorials, quickstarts, & labs
Run your EDA processes on high-performance NFS storage
Run your EDA processes on high-performance NFS storage
EDA design, placement, verification, and tape-off require scalable, high-performance NFS shared storage. Filestore was designed to handle well the variability of EDA I/O patterns, including various file sizes, combinations of sequential and random-access reads and writes, and high metadata operations rates.
Web serving and content management
Run your websites, CMS, and media hosting on Google Cloud
Run your websites, CMS, and media hosting on Google Cloud
Filestore’s scalable architecture is a great fit for the high I/O demands of web serving and media hosting, supporting low-latency, metadata-heavy operations. Customers rely on Filestore’s high-performance NFS file share service to manage and serve web content, including on content management systems such as WordPress and Drupal. Read how WP Engine powers more than a quarter of a million sites.
Tutorials, quickstarts, & labs
Run your websites, CMS, and media hosting on Google Cloud
Run your websites, CMS, and media hosting on Google Cloud
Filestore’s scalable architecture is a great fit for the high I/O demands of web serving and media hosting, supporting low-latency, metadata-heavy operations. Customers rely on Filestore’s high-performance NFS file share service to manage and serve web content, including on content management systems such as WordPress and Drupal. Read how WP Engine powers more than a quarter of a million sites.
Storage for Google Kubernetes Engine
Lower costs and increase availability using file shares
Lower costs and increase availability using file shares
Filestore’s fully managed NFS solution supports GKE apps that require shared file storage. With an integrated and managed GKE CSI driver, multiple pods can share access to the same file system, thus lowering costs by avoiding multiple copies of the same data. Filestore can also increase availability, with fast failover of pods between nodes, and flexibly share performance across multiple shares.
Tutorials, quickstarts, & labs
Lower costs and increase availability using file shares
Lower costs and increase availability using file shares
Filestore’s fully managed NFS solution supports GKE apps that require shared file storage. With an integrated and managed GKE CSI driver, multiple pods can share access to the same file system, thus lowering costs by avoiding multiple copies of the same data. Filestore can also increase availability, with fast failover of pods between nodes, and flexibly share performance across multiple shares.
Datastores for VMware clusters
Scale datastore capacity independently from compute
Scale datastore capacity independently from compute
Filestore Zonal and Filestore Regional are VMware-certified as NFS datastores with Google Cloud VMware Engine. Right-size vCPUs and storage capacity independently to meet compute and storage requirements for your storage intensive VMs. Leverage vSAN for low latency VM requirements and scale Filestore from TBs to PBs for the capacity-hungry VMs.
Tutorials, quickstarts, & labs
Scale datastore capacity independently from compute
Scale datastore capacity independently from compute
Filestore Zonal and Filestore Regional are VMware-certified as NFS datastores with Google Cloud VMware Engine. Right-size vCPUs and storage capacity independently to meet compute and storage requirements for your storage intensive VMs. Leverage vSAN for low latency VM requirements and scale Filestore from TBs to PBs for the capacity-hungry VMs.
Pricing
| How Filestore pricing works | Pricing depends on region, service tier, and instance capacity. Custom performance instances have separate charges per instance, GiB, and IOPS. | |
|---|---|---|
| Type | Description | Price (USD) |
Filestore Regional - custom performance on | Per instance | Starting at $40 per month |
Instance capacity | Starting at $0.21 per GiB per month | |
Per IOPS | Starting at $0.027 per month | |
Filestore Regional - custom performance off | Instance capacity | Starting at $0.45 per GiB per month |
Filestore Zonal - custom performance on | Per instance | Starting at $20 per month |
Instance capacity | Starting at $0.12 per GiB per month | |
Per IOPS | Starting at $0.0145 per month | |
Filestore Zonal - custom performance off | Instance capacity | Starting at $0.25 per GiB per month |
Learn more about Filestore service tiers and detailed pricing.
How Filestore pricing works
Pricing depends on region, service tier, and instance capacity. Custom performance instances have separate charges per instance, GiB, and IOPS.
Filestore Regional - custom performance on
Per instance
Starting at
$40
per month
Instance capacity
Starting at
$0.21
per GiB per month
Per IOPS
Starting at
$0.027
per month
Filestore Regional - custom performance off
Instance capacity
Starting at
$0.45
per GiB per month
Filestore Zonal - custom performance on
Per instance
Starting at
$20
per month
Instance capacity
Starting at
$0.12
per GiB per month
Per IOPS
Starting at
$0.0145
per month
Filestore Zonal - custom performance off
Instance capacity
Starting at
$0.25
per GiB per month
Learn more about Filestore service tiers and detailed pricing.