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 Performance Service Tiers

• You can pick a performance tier to support your workload requirements.
  • Basic (HDD) – General purpose, test/dev
  • Basic (SSD) – High performance, limited capacity
  • High Scale (SSD) – High performance, large capacity

Google Cloud Filestore Pricing

• Filestore is priced based on the following factors:
  • Service Tier – Basic Standard, Basic Premium, or High Scale SSD
  • Instance Capacity – refers to the storage capacity allocation of your instance
  • Region – the location to which the instance is provisioned
• There is no charge for ingress traffic to Filestore or egress traffic to a client within the same zone as the Filestore instance. However, there is a charge for egress from Filestore when network traffic leaves the zone of the Filestore instance.

Google Cloud Filestore Cheat Sheet References:

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