Cloud Filestore Filestore
Legacy names Cloud Filestore, Filestore Standard tier, Filestore Premium tier, Filestore High Scale SSD tier
Fully managed NFS file storage service for Compute Engine VMs and Google Kubernetes Engine clusters.
Naming timeline
- Cloud Filestore
Launched as Cloud Filestore with Standard and Premium service tiers.
- FilestoreCurrent name
Product name shortened from Cloud Filestore to Filestore (with Standard, Premium, and High Scale SSD tiers subsequently renamed to Basic HDD, Basic SSD, and Zonal tiers in Nov 2022 and Nov 2023).
What is Cloud Filestore called now?
Cloud Filestore is now called Filestore, with the latest change on 20 April 2020 (Prefix Simplification (Service Tiers Renamed Nov 2022 & Nov 2023)). Earlier names covered by this entry also include Filestore Standard tier, Filestore Premium tier, Filestore High Scale SSD tier. Fully managed NFS file storage service for Compute Engine VMs and Google Kubernetes Engine clusters. Only the customer-facing name changed; the underlying technical identifiers remain backward compatible.
Also known as
- Filestore Basic HDD
- Filestore Basic SSD
- Filestore Zonal
- Filestore Regional
- Filestore Enterprise
Technical identifiers
Technical identifiers unchanged. Only the customer-facing product name changed; the APIs, CLI commands, IAM roles and Terraform resources below keep their legacy identifiers for backward compatibility.
| REST / gRPC APIs | file.googleapis.com |
|---|---|
| gcloud / CLI Commands | gcloud filestore |
| IAM Predefined Roles | roles/file.* |
| Terraform Resources | google_filestore_instance |
file.googleapis.com is still titled Cloud Filestore API and supports both legacy (STANDARD, PREMIUM, HIGH_SCALE_SSD) and current (BASIC_HDD, BASIC_SSD, ZONAL, REGIONAL, ENTERPRISE) tier enum identifiers.
Notes & disambiguation
- Originally launched as Cloud Filestore in July 2018 and shortened to Filestore in April 2020.
- On November 16, 2022, Filestore renamed its Standard tier to Basic HDD and its Premium tier to Basic SSD; on November 2, 2023, the High Scale SSD tier evolved into the Zonal tier.
- The underlying API (file.googleapis.com) is still titled 'Cloud Filestore API' and continues accepting legacy tier enum values (STANDARD, PREMIUM, HIGH_SCALE_SSD) alongside BASIC_HDD, BASIC_SSD, ZONAL, REGIONAL, and ENTERPRISE.
Sources & official documentation
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