Google Cloud Filestore Cheat Sheet

• Fully managed NFS file servers on Google Cloud for Compute Engine and Google Kubernetes Engine instances
• Most commonly used for media rendering, data analytics, and managing shared content.

Features

• Simple, fast, consistent, scalable, and easy to use network-attached storage.
• You can copy data from Cloud Storage to a filestore fileshare that is mounted on a Compute Engine instance.
• Data is encrypted at rest and in transit with system-defined keys or customer-supplied keys.
• Filestore instances are zonal resources that feature in-zone storage redundancy only.

• It is tightly integrated with Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) so containers can reference the same shared data.
• You can easily grow or shrink your Filestore instances via the Google Cloud Console GUI, gcloud command line, or via API-based controls.
• Filestore Regional: Offers 99.99% regional availability SLA for critical applications like SAP, with resiliency to zonal outages.
• Snapshots and backups: Instantaneous snapshots and backups with regular scheduling. Recover data from snapshots in 10 minutes or less.
• Data replication: Replicate data to another instance in a different region for additional protection.
• GKE CSI driver: Integrated Container Storage Interface driver for GKE, allowing multiple pods shared access to same data, lowering costs and enabling fast failover.
• VMware Engine support: VMware-certified as NFS datastores with Google Cloud VMware Engine. Scale datastore capacity independently from compute.
• Performance specs: Supports up to 100 TiB capacity, 26 GiB/s throughput, and 920K IOPS.

Filestore Performance Service Tiers

• You can pick a performance tier to support your workload requirements.
  • Filestore Zonal: High zonal availability for HPC, EDA, media rendering, data analytics, GKE. Capacity: 1-100 TiB.
  • Filestore Regional: Regional availability for critical enterprise workloads (SAP, Oracle, VMware Engine). Capacity: 1-100 TiB.
  • Multi-share for GKE: Multi-shares within an instance as small as 10 GiB, with regional availability. Capacity: 1-10 TiB with up to 80 shares.y

Google Cloud Filestore Pricing

Filestore pricing depends on region, service tier, instance capacity, and whether custom performance is enabled.

• Custom Performance ON (separate charges):
  • Per instance fee (Zonal: $20/month, Regional: $40/month)
  • Per GiB capacity (Zonal: $0.12/GiB, Regional: $0.21/GiB)
  • Per IOPS (Zonal: $0.0145/IOPS, Regional: $0.027/IOPS)
• Custom Performance OFF:
  • Per GiB capacity only (Zonal: $0.25/GiB, Regional: $0.45/GiB)
• Backups:
  • Charged per GiB stored with 1-hour minimum.
  • Cross-regional network costs apply when backup is stored in different region than the instance (rates vary by region pair).
• Network pricing:
  • No charge for inbound data transfer to Filestore or outbound to clients in same zone.
  • Charges apply when traffic leaves the zone of the Filestore instance.
  • Charges may apply for data transfer from other Google Cloud services into Filestore.

Google Cloud Filestore Cheat Sheet References:

https://cloud.google.com/filestore
https://cloud.google.com/filestore/pricing