November 14, 2017
Requester Pays feature is now available.
- When enabled on a bucket, users accessing the bucket or its contents must specify a project to bill for charges that arise from their request.
- Callers can specify a billing project on requests to buckets both with and without Requester Pays enabled.
The Cloud Pub/Sub Notifications for Cloud Storage feature is now in GA.
The resource attribute of Cloud Pub/Sub Notifications for Cloud Storage is now deprecated. It does not appear for new subscriptions and will not appear in any subscription after June 1, 2018.
October 31, 2017
Mumbai region (asia-south1) launched.
- New location for storing your data.
September 18, 2017
Bucket metadata PATCH requests to
the JSON API require the storage.buckets.setIamPolicy permission
if the requester has storage.buckets.getIamPolicy permission. This
is true even for patches that do not change ACLs or IAM
permissions.
See IAM permissions for JSON and IAM permissions for gsutil for affected methods and commands.
September 5, 2017
São Paulo region (southamerica-east1) launched.
- New location for storing your data.
August 14, 2017
You can now control Object Lifecycle Management from the Storage Console.
August 1, 2017
Frankfurt region (europe-west3) launched.
- New location for storing your data.
June 20, 2017
Sydney region (australia-southeast1) launched.
- New location for storing your data.
June 6, 2017
New public dataset stored in Cloud Storage.
- Data for NEXRAD are now hosted publicly in Cloud Storage.
London region (europe-west2) launched.
- New location for storing your data.
May 31, 2017
Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies are now GA for buckets. Policies applied at the bucket level can be used to control access to individual buckets as well as all the objects within them.
May 24, 2017
Attempts to access a non-existent object returns a 403 error instead of a 404 error if the requester lacks object listing permission for the associated bucket.
May 9, 2017
Northern Virginia region (us-east4) launched.
- New location for storing your data.
April 26, 2017
The Cloud Storage Client Libraries for the Cloud Storage API is now in GA.
April 11, 2017
Singapore region (asia-southeast1) launched.
- New location for storing your data.
April 6, 2017
Labels can now be used with your buckets in order to better organize all of your Google Cloud Platform resources.
March 27, 2017
Cloud Pub/Sub Notifications for Cloud StorageBETA
- Track changes to objects in your buckets through notifications sent to Cloud Pub/Sub.
- You can set the event types that generate notifications as well as the information contained within notifications.
December 7, 2016
The per-object storage class feature is now in GA.
November 07, 2016
asia-northeast1 region launched.
- New location for storing your data.
October 20, 2016
Coldline, a new archival storage class, is now available.
- The Coldline Storage class provides low price, immediately accessible data storage for your backup, archival and disaster recovery needs.
- Ideal for data that intends to be accessed less than once a year.
Standard Storage class is now Multi-Regional Storage and Regional Storage.
- The Multi-Regional Storage class provides the same price and performance along with geo-redundant copies of your data and a 99.95% availability SLA.
- The Regional Storage class provides the same performance at a reduced price.
Per-object storage classesBETA
- Users can set the storage class at the object level.
- Users can configure lifecycle management to automatically change the storage class of an object when designated criteria are met.
October 4, 2016
Public datasets stored in Cloud Storage
- Datasets for the Landsat and Sentinel-2 missions are now hosted publicly in Cloud Storage.
- Read about the Landsat dataset
- Read about the Sentinel-2 dataset
September 26, 2016
Alpha release for bucket-level IAM.
- Access to this feature is currently by request/invite only. Apply IAM permissions to individual buckets in your projects.
August 29, 2016
Improved upload experience in the Storage Console.
- Users can retry failed uploads.
- The upload drawer persists when navigating to other parts of the Storage Console.
- Users are immediately notified when an upload starts and ends.
August 3, 2016
Nearline latency times reduced.
- Buckets created in the Nearline storage class now have the same sub-second latency as other storage class buckets.
August 1, 2016
Object generation numbers no longer have ordering guarantees.
- Generation numbers associated with Cloud Storage objects no longer increase monotonically or have ordering guarantees between generations.
- Generation numbers continue to be unique resource identifiers.
- See the announcement.
July 20, 2016
us-west1 region launched.
- New location for storing your data.
June 24, 2016
X-Goog-Content-Length-Range custom header available.
June 13, 2016
On-Demand I/O for Nearline-class buckets no longer necessary.
- Buckets created in the Nearline storage class now have throughput and QPS that automatically scale with your needs, at no extra cost.
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