Google Cloud Managed Lustre release notes

This page documents production updates to Google Cloud Managed Lustre. Check this page for announcements about new or updated features, bug fixes, known issues, and deprecated functionality.

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February 13, 2026

Feature

The maximum throughput and the maximum storage capacities for Managed Lustre instances have been increased:

  • Maximum throughput has been increased to 1.5 TBps.
  • The largest storage capacity is now 12,240,000 GiB (11.67 PiB), for instances in the 125 MBps per TiB performance tier. Other tiers have increased proportionally.

See Performance tiers and maximum storage capacities for more details.

February 11, 2026

Feature

Managed Lustre now supports VPC Service Controls in Preview.

For more details, see Secure instances with a service perimeter.

January 29, 2026

Feature

Managed Lustre now supports customer-managed encryption keys (CMEK) to protect your Managed Lustre file systems.

For more details, see Customer-managed encryption keys for Managed Lustre.

October 27, 2025

Feature

Added Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 as a supported image type when connecting from a Compute Engine VM.

Feature

Managed Lustre now supports IP-based access control through the root-squash feature. Root squash prevents a root user on a client VM from having root privileges on a Managed Lustre file system.

For more details, see IP-based access control.

October 13, 2025

Fixed

Google Cloud Managed Lustre now fully supports data transfers to and from Cloud Storage buckets that have Object Lifecycle Management (OLM) or Autoclass enabled.

September 23, 2025

Feature

Google Cloud Managed Lustre now supports file system quotas, allowing you to set limits on the amount of disk space and the number of files that users, groups, or projects can consume within your file system.

For details, see File system quotas in the Managed Lustre documentation.

August 28, 2025

Feature

You can now increase the storage capacity of your Managed Lustre instances after they've been created.

See Increase the capacity of a Managed Lustre instance.

June 30, 2025

Announcement

Google Cloud Managed Lustre is now Generally Available (GA) to all customers with the following new features:

  • New performance tiers with maximum throughput speeds from 125 MBps per TiB to 1000 MBps per TiB.
  • Increased storage capacity, up to 7,632,000 GiB (~8 PiB).

Learn more about performance tiers and maximum capacities.

April 08, 2025

Change

Google Cloud Managed Lustre is now Generally Available (GA) with access by invitation.

Managed Lustre provides a fully managed parallel file system optimized for AI and HPC applications, with storage capacity up to 1 PB.

To request access to Managed Lustre in your Google Cloud project, contact your sales representative.