Management Hub

This page provides an overview of Management Hub, its benefits, and the flexible configuration options that Management Hub offers.

Overview

Management Hub simplifies the management of Cloud Storage at scale by providing a unified platform for data exploration, cost optimization, security enforcement, and governance implementation.

Benefits

Management Hub offers the following benefits:

  • Simplifies storage management tasks by providing a single platform to manage, analyze, and optimize your Cloud Storage resources.
  • Enhances data exploration by providing a centralized platform to search, browse, and analyze your data across all your Cloud Storage locations.
  • Analyzes Cloud Storage usage to identify cost savings areas like unused resources, cheaper storage class options, and providing action recommendations to reduce your Cloud Storage costs.
  • Provides a centralized platform to manage organizational security policies across your Cloud Storage environment.
  • Provides prebuilt tools and functionalities that minimize development time and the potential for errors. This eliminates the need for custom management solutions.

Configuration options

Management Hub has the following configuration options:

  1. Resource
  2. Bucket filters
  3. Edition configuration

Resource

You can enable Management Hub at different levels of your Google Cloud resource hierarchy. This provides flexibility in controlling which resources Management Hub manages. The following sections describe the resources you can enable Management Hub on. For information about how to enable Management Hub for a resource, see Enable Management Hub.

Organization

When you enable Management Hub on an organization, all current and new folders and projects within that organization inherit the organization's configuration. If you have the appropriate permissions, you can exclude folders or projects from inheriting the organization's configuration.

Folder

Enabling Management Hub for a folder is useful for projects that are grouped within folders. When you enable Management Hub on a folder, all current and new projects within that folder inherit the folder's configuration. If you have the appropriate permissions, you can exclude projects from inheriting the folder's configuration.

Project

Enabling Management Hub on a project is suitable for workloads, departments or teams that are organized by project.

Bucket filters

You can control which Cloud Storage buckets Management Hub manages. You can include or exclude buckets based on their region or name using regular expressions. This granular control helps you limit Management Hub features to only the required buckets. For information about how to apply bucket filters, see Enable Management Hub.

Filter by region

Filtering by region lets you choose the geographic locations to include or exclude from Management Hub. Including specific regions focuses your analysis and can reduce processing time. Excluding regions lets you omit data that's regulated or irrelevant to your analysis. This targeted approach streamlines analysis and ensures Management Hub gives you the most relevant and useful insights.

Filter by name

Filtering by name in Management Hub enables granular control over the scope of analysis by including or excluding buckets based on their names. You can also do so by using regular expressions. The following examples describe how to use regular expressions to exclude buckets based on their names:

  1. To exclude all buckets that contain colddata in their names, use the following regular expression:

    colddata.*

  2. To exclude the bucket named colddata, use the following regular expression:

    colddata

  3. To exclude buckets named colour or color, use the following regular expression:

    colo?r

Edition configuration

A resource (an organization, a folder, or a project) has one of the following edition configurations:

  1. INHERIT: Inherits the configuration of its parent resource.
  2. STANDARD: Enables the STANDARD edition of Management Hub. The STANDARD edition includes all Management Hub features and is the default edition when you enable Management Hub for a resource.
  3. DISABLED: Disables Management Hub for the specified resource. Child resources inherit the disabled state unless you explicitly set them to STANDARD or INHERIT.

The following diagram shows an example of edition configurations across different levels of the resource hierarchy.

Figure 1. Edition configurations across different levels of resource hierarchy.
Figure 1. Edition configurations across different levels of resource hierarchy.

The following table shows how to use edition configurations to enable or disable Management Hub across your Google Cloud resources. You can enable Management Hub at the organization level. This root-level setting enables Management Hub for all folders and projects within the organization. However, recognizing that different teams or departments might have unique requirements, you can also create exceptions and fine-tune these configurations at lower levels for specific folders and projects.

Resource Edition configuration Management Hub status Description
Organization A STANDARD Enabled STANDARD means that Management Hub is enabled for the whole organization. As a result, by default, all projects and folders within the organization A inherit Management Hub.
Folder C DISABLED Disabled To disable Management Hub for folder C, you can update the edition configuration to DISABLED.
Project E DISABLED Disabled To disable Management Hub for project E, you can update the edition configuration to DISABLED.

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