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.

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.

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.

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.

Filestore is available in asia-southeast3 (Bangkok). For more information, see Filestore regions and zones.

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.

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.

The promoteReplica API is available for promoting replicas to regular instances. For more information, see About instance replication.

You can now use the Filestore CSI driver to create Filestore instances with the NFSv4.1 protocol from the Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) cluster. This feature is available for zonal, regional, and enterprise service tiers.

Custom performance is now generally available for Filestore instances.

You can now use custom constraints with Organization Policy to provide more granular control over specific fields for some Filestore resources. For more information, see Creating custom constraints for Filestore.

The basic HDD extended range tier is now generally available to all GKE customers through the Filestore CSI driver.

Instance replication is now generally available (GA).

Filestore is now available in Mexico (northamerica-south1 region).

Deletion protection is now generally available for Filestore instances.

NFSv4.1 protocol support, integrated with Managed Service for Microsoft Active Directory, is now generally available for zonal, regional, and enterprise instances.

Access Transparency supports Filestore in GA stage. For more information, see Access Transparency supported services.

Filestore instances no longer require reserved capacity for certain internal operations. For more information, see Monitoring instances.

The regional service tier is now generally available.

You can now revert an instance to a snapshot state. This feature is generally available for instances created in the zonal and enterprise service tiers.

Change

Filestore supports IP-based access control for your volumes. You can now use the Filestore CSI driver to configure IP-based access control at volume creation.

You can use CMEK organization policies to manage key usage with your new Filestore resources. This feature is now generally available.

NFSv4.1 protocol support, integrated with Managed Service for Microsoft Active Directory, is now available in Preview for Filestore enterprise and zonal instances.

Filestore is now available in Johannesburg, South Africa (africa-south1 region).

Zonal tier backups are now generally available.

The zonal service tier is now generally available.

Filestore is now available in Berlin (europe-west10 region).

Filestore enterprise singleshare backups for GKE are now generally available.

Filestore enterprise tier backups are now generally available.

Filestore is now available in Dammam (me-central2 region).

The zonal service tier with options for a higher or lower capacity band is now available in Preview.