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Cloud Storage product icon Cloud Storage

Object storage for companies of all sizes

Cloud Storage is a managed service for storing unstructured data. Store any amount of data and retrieve it as often as you like.

New customers can use $300 in free credits to try Cloud Storage.

Looking for something else? Check out personal, team, and block storage options.

Features

Automatic storage class transitions

With features like Object Lifecycle Management (OLM) and Autoclass you can easily optimize costs with object placement across storage classes. You can enable, at the bucket level, policy-based automatic object movement to colder storage classes based on the last access time. There are no early deletion or retrieval fees, nor class transition charges for object access in colder storage classes. 

Continental-scale and SLA-backed replication

Industry leading dual-region buckets support an expansive number of regions. A single, continental-scale bucket offers nine regions across three continents, providing a Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of zero. In the event of an outage, applications seamlessly access the data in the alternate region. There is no failover and failback process. For organizations requiring ultra availability, turbo replication with dual-region buckets offers a 15 minute Recovery Point Objective (RPO) SLA. 

Fast and flexible transfer services

Storage Transfer Service offers a highly performant, online pathway to Cloud Storage—both with the scalability and speed you need to simplify the data transfer process. For offline data transfer our Transfer Appliance is a shippable storage server that sits in your datacenter and then ships to an ingest location where the data is uploaded to Cloud Storage.

Default and configurable data security

Cloud Storage offers secure-by-design features to protect your data and advanced controls and capabilities to keep your data private and secure against leaks or compromises. Security features include access control policies, data encryption, retention policies, retention policy locks, and signed URLs.

Leading analytics and ML/AI tools

Once your data is stored in Cloud Storage, easily plug into Google Cloud’s powerful tools to create your data warehouse with BigQuery, run open-source analytics with Dataproc, or build and deploy machine learning (ML) models with Vertex AI. 

Object lifecycle management

Define conditions that trigger data deletion or transition to a cheaper storage class.

Object Versioning

Continue to store old copies of objects when they are deleted or overwritten.

Retention policies

Define minimum retention periods that objects must be stored for before they’re deletable.

Object holds

Place a hold on an object to prevent its deletion.

Customer-managed encryption keys

Encrypt object data with encryption keys stored by the Cloud Key Management Service and managed by you.

Customer-supplied encryption keys

Encrypt object data with encryption keys created and managed by you.

Uniform bucket-level access

Uniformly control access to your Cloud Storage resources by disabling object ACLs.

Requester pays

Require accessors of your data to include a project ID to bill for network charges, operation charges, and retrieval fees.

Bucket Lock

Bucket Lock allows you to configure a data retention policy for a Cloud Storage bucket that governs how long objects in the bucket must be retained.

Pub/Sub notifications for Cloud Storage

Send notifications to Pub/Sub when objects are created, updated, or deleted.

Cloud Audit Logs with Cloud Storage

Maintain admin activity logs and data access logs for your Cloud Storage resources.

Object- and bucket-level permissions

Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM) allows you to control who has access to your buckets and objects.

Storage options

Storage for data that is frequently accessed ("hot" data) and/or stored for only brief periods of time.

"Hot" data, including websites, streaming videos, and mobile apps.

Low cost, highly durable storage service for storing infrequently accessed data.

Data that can be stored for 30 days.

A very low cost, highly durable storage service for storing infrequently accessed data.

Data that can be stored for 90 days.

The lowest cost, highly durable storage service for data archiving, online backup, and disaster recovery.

Data that can be stored for 365 days.

Storage type Description Best for

Standard storage

Storage for data that is frequently accessed ("hot" data) and/or stored for only brief periods of time.

"Hot" data, including websites, streaming videos, and mobile apps.

Nearline storage

Low cost, highly durable storage service for storing infrequently accessed data.

Data that can be stored for 30 days.

Coldline Storage

A very low cost, highly durable storage service for storing infrequently accessed data.

Data that can be stored for 90 days.

Archival storage

The lowest cost, highly durable storage service for data archiving, online backup, and disaster recovery.

Data that can be stored for 365 days.

How It Works

To use Cloud Storage, you’ll first create a bucket, a basic container that holds your data in Cloud Storage. You’ll then upload objects into that bucket—where you can download, share, and manage objects.
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Common Uses

Backups and archives

Media content storage and delivery

Data lakes and big data analytics

Machine learning and AI

Host a website

Pricing

How Cloud Storage pricing works

Pricing for Cloud Storage services is based on storage class (location and operation fees apply), network egress, and network usage.

Always Free usage

All customers get 5 GiB of US regional storage free per month, not charged against your credits. Learn more about Always Free limits.

Free

Storage class

Standard Storage

Best for frequently accessed ("hot" data) and/or stored for only brief periods of time.

Starting at

$.02

per GiB per month


Nearline Storage

Best for service for storing infrequently accessed data.

Starting at

$.01

per GiB per month


Coldline Storage

Best for storing infrequently accessed data.

Starting at

$.004

per GiB per month


Archival Storage

Best for data archiving, online backup, and disaster recovery.

Starting at

$.0012

per GiB per month

Network egress and special service rates

Network egress within Google Cloud

Applies when moving, copying, accessing data in Cloud Storage or between Google Cloud services.

Check your network product for pricing information.

General network usage

General network usage applies for any data that does not fall into one of the above categories or the Always Free usage limits.

Ranges from

$0.12-$0.20

based on monthly usage

How Cloud Storage pricing works Pricing for Cloud Storage services is based on storage class (location and operation fees apply), network egress, and network usage.
Service usage and type Description Price (USD)
Always Free usage

All customers get 5 GiB of US regional storage free per month, not charged against your credits. Learn more about Always Free limits.

Free

Storage class

Standard Storage

Best for frequently accessed ("hot" data) and/or stored for only brief periods of time.

Starting at

$.02

per GiB per month

Nearline Storage

Best for service for storing infrequently accessed data.

Starting at

$.01

per GiB per month

Coldline Storage

Best for storing infrequently accessed data.

Starting at

$.004

per GiB per month

Archival Storage

Best for data archiving, online backup, and disaster recovery.

Starting at

$.0012

per GiB per month

Network egress and special service rates

Network egress within Google Cloud

Applies when moving, copying, accessing data in Cloud Storage or between Google Cloud services.

Check your network product for pricing information.

General network usage

General network usage applies for any data that does not fall into one of the above categories or the Always Free usage limits.

Ranges from

$0.12-$0.20

based on monthly usage

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Custom quote

Connect with our sales team to get a custom quote for your organization.
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New customers get $300 in free credits

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Get a quick intro to using Cloud Storage

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Introduction and Best Practices for Cloud Storage

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How to name buckets

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Business Case

Explore how companies are using Cloud Storage

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Vimeo is delivering more high-quality videos than ever while reducing costs

Vimeo replaced its servers for accepting video uploads with Cloud Storage, fronted by the Fastly edge cloud to help ensure regional routing and low-latency, high-throughput connections for Vimeo’s publishers. Multi-regional Cloud Storage offers fast, resumable upload capability that helps make for better user experience.

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Used by top financial institutions KeyBank, PayPal, and Commerzbank.

Powering top autonomous vehicle companies Cruise and Nuro.

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FAQ

No. For personal storage options, including photos, device backup, VPN, and more, visit Google One

Cloud Storage is a service for storing objects in Google Cloud. An object is an immutable piece of data consisting of a file of any format. You store objects in containers called buckets. All buckets are associated with a project, and you can group your projects under an organization. Learn more about other Google Cloud storage products, including block storage, data transfer, and file storage. 

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