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June 02, 2026
You can configure your Filestore instances to use Private Service Connect with NFSv3 or NFSv4.1 file system protocols and IPv4 or IPv6 address families to allow consumers access managed services privately from inside their VPC network. This feature is generally available.
For more information, see Create a Filestore instance with Private Service Connect.
June 01, 2026
The Filestore remote Model Context Protocol (MCP) server is generally available (GA). The Filestore remote MCP server lets you create and manage Filestore instances from LLMs, AI applications, and AI-enabled development platforms.
April 13, 2026
You can use Filestore CSI driver to dynamically scale custom performance for zonal and regional Filestore instances.
For more information, see Dynamically scale Filestore performance using VolumeAttributesClass.
April 09, 2026
Filestore is integrated with Backup and Disaster Recovery (DR) Service allowing you to centrally manage your backups with advanced features for data protection. This feature is generally available for Filestore instances.
For more information, see Backups overview.
October 20, 2025
You can now create regional Filestore instances starting at 100 GiB and scale them in 1 GiB units. The small instances feature is available under Restricted GA in us-central1 and us-east4 regions.
For more information, see Small capacity Filestore instances.
September 25, 2025
You can now use the Filestore CSI driver to create Filestore regional instances. For more information, see Access Filestore instances with the Filestore CSI driver.
November 18, 2024
Filestore is now available in Mexico (northamerica-south1 region).
October 07, 2024
Deletion protection is now generally available for Filestore instances.
September 30, 2024
NFSv4.1 protocol support, integrated with Managed Service for Microsoft Active Directory, is now generally available for zonal, regional, and enterprise instances.
August 19, 2024
Access Transparency supports Filestore in GA stage. For more information, see Access Transparency supported services.
March 28, 2024
You can use CMEK organization policies to manage key usage with your new Filestore resources. This feature is now generally available.
February 22, 2024
NFSv4.1 protocol support, integrated with Managed Service for Microsoft Active Directory, is now available in Preview for Filestore enterprise and zonal instances.
February 13, 2024
Filestore is now available in Johannesburg, South Africa (africa-south1 region).
January 16, 2024
Zonal tier backups are now generally available.
November 02, 2023
The zonal service tier is now generally available.
October 23, 2023
Filestore is now available in Berlin (europe-west10 region).
October 16, 2023
October 02, 2023
Filestore enterprise tier backups are now generally available.
June 30, 2023
Support for revert snapshot operations is now available for high scale SSD instances (Preview).
May 22, 2023
April 24, 2023
April 17, 2023
April 13, 2023
March 13, 2023
March 10, 2023
Support for Filestore as an NFS datastore for Google Cloud VMware Engine (GCVE) is now available in Preview.
March 06, 2023
Filestore data is compliant with at-rest and in-use data residency requirements pursuant with Google Cloud terms of service.
February 28, 2023
High Scale and Enterprise tier instances now support overlapping permissions (GA).
November 23, 2022
Filestore (Basic HDD and Basic SSD tiers) are now in compliance with the FedRAMP Moderate standard.
November 16, 2022
Filestore Backups for High Scale and Enterprise tier instances is available in Preview.
October 27, 2022
September 29, 2022
Filestore High Scale and Enterprise tier instances now support IP address allocations with the /26 prefix.
August 29, 2022
Filestore is now available in Madrid, Spain (europe-southwest1 region).
Filestore is now available in Milan, Italy (europe-west8 region).
Filestore is now available in Paris, France (europe-west9 region).
July 22, 2022
Preview: Filestore Multishares for GKE provides a file service option for GKE users that require multiple, smaller NFS-mounted Persistent Volumes from a single Filestore instance.
Each Persistent Volume can start with just 100GiB of storage, providing a more cost-efficient option for customers.
For more information, see Filestore Multishares for GKE.
December 16, 2021
The following Filestore features are now generally available (GA):
- Enterprise tier
- Customer-managed encryption key support
- Snapshots
- Private services access support
Filestore snapshots now support reverting to a snapshot.
October 05, 2021
You can now get support for preview features for Filestore. For details see the Support page.
June 29, 2021
Filestore is available in the europe-central2 (Warsaw) region. See Regions and zones.
Filestore is now available in Delhi (asia-south2 region).
June 25, 2021
You can now secure your Filestore instances using a VPC service perimeter. For details, see Securing instances with a service perimeter.
June 21, 2021
Filestore is now available in Melbourne (australia-southeast2 region).
December 22, 2020
IP-based access control is now generally available.
November 18, 2020
Filestore now supports access over VPN. You can mount Filestore file shares on an on-premises client and clients on a remote VPC with this new capability. To learn how to set up a VPN connection with Cloud VPN, see Creating an HA VPN gateway to a Peer VPN gateway.
January 24, 2020
Cloud Filestore is now available in the Seoul (asia-northeast3) region.
April 08, 2019
GA release of Cloud Filestore
- Cloud Filestore is now generally available for use.
July 12, 2018
Beta release of Cloud Filestore
- The Beta version of Cloud Filestore is now available for use.