This page describes the service tiers that Filestore offers and provides guidance on selecting the tier that best suits your needs.
Filestore offers the following primary service tiers:
- Zonal: Optimized for high performance computing (HPC) and localized workloads.
- Regional: Designed for regional availability and resilience against zone outages.
- Multishares for GKE (Enterprise): Specifically optimized for GKE workloads requiring high availability and multiple shares.
Filestore also supports legacy tiers for purposes such as automation backward compatibility or specific cost and performance requirements:
- Basic HDD
- Basic SSD
For more information on Basic service tiers, see Filestore legacy service tiers.
Tier comparison
Each tier offers different capacity options and performance levels to fit different use cases.
| Service tier | Provisionable capacity | Scalability | Performance | Availability | Data protection |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zonal | 1 TiB to 9.75 TiB | Up or down in 256 GiB units | Configurable | Zonal | Backups Snapshots Replication |
| Zonal | 10 TiB to 100 TiB | Up or down in 2.5 TiB units | Configurable | Zonal | Backups Snapshots Replication |
| Regional | 100 GiB to 9.75 TiB* | Up or down in 1 GiB or 256 GiB units* | Configurable | Regional | Backups Snapshots Replication |
| Regional | 10 TiB to 100 TiB | Up or down in 2.5 TiB units | Configurable | Regional | Backups Snapshots Replication |
Multishares for GKE(Enterprise) | 1 TiB to 10 TiB | Up or down in 256 GiB units | Scales with capacity | Regional | Backups Snapshots Replication |
| Basic HDD (on GKE)** | 100 GiB to 63.9 TiB | Up only in 1 GiB units | Standard fixed | Zonal | Backups |
| Basic HDD | 1 TiB to 63.9 TiB | Up only in 1 GiB units | Standard fixed | Zonal | Backups |
| Basic SSD | 2.5 TiB to 63.9 TiB | Up only in 1 GiB units | Premium fixed | Zonal | Backups |
* Capacity range depends on the access to the small instances feature.
** Basic HDD on GKE refers to basic HDD instances with a minimum capacity of 100 GiB provisioned with the Filestore CSI driver Basic HDD on GKE instances with capacity lower than 1 TiB consume 1 TiB of quota.
Pricing
For detailed information about pricing for each service tier, see the Pricing page.
Quota
A Filestore project's storage capacity and instance quota are influenced by the region and service tier you choose.
To see your available quota, go to the Quotas & Limits page in the Google Cloud console.
If you need to request additional quota, see Requesting quota increases.
What's next
- Get started using Filestore by installing and enabling Filestore components.
- Learn more about Filestore in the technical overview.
- See the regions that support Filestore.
- Learn more about Multishares for GKE (Enterprise).
- Learn more about Limits.