Filestore
Filestore is Google Cloud’s managed NAS solution, delivering petabyte-scale storage specifically tuned for high-performance computing workloads. It handles the heavy lifting of maintaining a secure, online file system, allowing teams to run compute-intensive applications that require consistent, low-latency access to shared data without managing underlying hardware infrastructure.
This setup suits engineering groups needing robust, scalable file storage for HPC tasks, but it comes with a strict pay-as-you-go model. There is no free tier available, meaning every byte stored and every request made incurs immediate cost. Teams must budget carefully for production use, as there is no sandbox or zero-cost entry point to test performance or integrate the service before committing to paid usage.
- Free tier No
- Pricing Pay as you go
- Regions 10 · 5 continents
- SLA uptime 99.99%
- Compliance 13 certifications
- Provider health B
Decision score
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- C5
- CSA STAR
- FedRAMP
- GDPR
- HIPAA
- ISO 27001
- ISO 27017
- ISO 27018
- ISO 9001
- PCI DSS
- SOC 1 Type II
- SOC 2 Type II
- compute99.99%
- database99.95%
- networking99.99%
- storage99.95%
10 regions across 5 continents
- Asia
- Europe
- North America
- Oceania
- South America
Alternatives on other providers
Equivalent services on other clouds:
- AWS Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) $0.008 per GB/month Compare
- DigitalOcean Network File Storage no price Compare
- Microsoft Azure Azure Files no price Compare