Create a bucket (original) (raw)

This page shows you how to create a Cloud Storage bucket. If not otherwise specified in your request, buckets are created in theUS multi-region with a default storage class of Standard storageand have a seven-day soft delete retention duration.

In order to get the required permissions for creating a Cloud Storage bucket, ask your administrator to grant you the Storage Admin (roles/storage.admin) IAM role for the project.

This predefined role contains the permission required to create a bucket. To see the exact permissions that are required, expand theRequired permissions section:

You might also be able to get these permissions with custom roles or other predefined roles. To see which roles are associated with which permissions, refer to IAM roles for Cloud Storage.

To create a bucket with specific settings or advanced configurations, complete the following steps:

Console

In the Google Cloud console, go to the Cloud Storage Buckets page.
Go to Buckets
Click Create.
On the Create a bucket page, enter your bucket information. After each of the following steps, click Continue to proceed to the next step:
1. In the Get started section, do the following:
  - Enter a globally unique name that meets thebucket name requirements.
  - To add a bucket label, click the expander arrow to expand the Labels section, clickAdd label, and specify a key and a value for your label.
2. In the Choose where to store your data section, do the following:
  1. Select a Location type.
  2. Use the location type's drop-down menu to select aLocation where object data within your bucket will be permanently stored.
    * If you select the dual-region location type, you can also choose to enable turbo replication by using the relevant checkbox.
  3. To set up cross-bucket replication, selectAdd cross-bucket replication via Storage Transfer Service and follow the steps:
  Set up cross-bucket replication
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        1. In the **Bucket** menu, select a bucket.  
        2. In the **Replication settings** section, click **Configure** to configure settings for the replication job.  
        The **Configure cross-bucket replication** pane appears.  
                    * To filter objects to replicate by object name prefix, enter a prefix with which you want to include or exclude objects, then click **Add a prefix**.  
                    * To set a storage class for the replicated objects, select a storage class from the **Storage class** menu. If you skip this step, the replicated objects will use the destination bucket's storage class by default.  
                    * Click **Done**.  
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3. In the Choose how to store your data section, do the following:
  1. Select a default storage class for the bucket orAutoclass for automatic storage class management of your bucket's data.
  2. To enable hierarchical namespace, in theOptimize storage for data-intensive workloads section, selectEnable Hierarchical namespace on this bucket.
4. In the Choose how to control access to objects section, select whether or not your bucket enforces public access prevention, and select an access control model for your bucket's objects.
5. In the Choose how to protect object data section, do the following:
  - Select any of the options under Data protection that you want to set for your bucket.
  - To enable soft delete, click expander arrow labeled soft delete policy, and specify the number of days you want to retain objects after deletion.
  - To choose how your object data will be encrypted, click the expander arrow labeled Data encryption, and select aData encryption method.
Click Create.

To learn how to get detailed error information about failed Cloud Storage operations in the Google Cloud console, seeTroubleshooting.

Command line

In the Google Cloud console, activate Cloud Shell.
Activate Cloud Shell
At the bottom of the Google Cloud console, aCloud Shell session starts and displays a command-line prompt. Cloud Shell is a shell environment with the Google Cloud CLI already installed and with values already set for your current project. It can take a few seconds for the session to initialize.
In your development environment, run thegcloud storage buckets create command:
gcloud storage buckets create gs://BUCKET_NAME --location=BUCKET_LOCATION
Where:
- BUCKET_NAME is the name you want to give your bucket, subject to naming requirements. For example,my-bucket.
- BUCKET_LOCATION is the location of your bucket. For example, US.
  If the request is successful, the command returns the following message:
  Creating gs://BUCKET_NAME/...
  Set the following flags to have greater control over the creation of your bucket:
- --project: Specify the project ID or project number with which your bucket will be associated. For example, my-project.
- --default-storage-class: Specify the default storage classof your bucket. For example, STANDARD.
- --uniform-bucket-level-access: Enable uniform bucket-level accessfor your bucket.
- --soft-delete-duration: Specify a soft delete retention duration, which is the number of days you want to retain objects after they get deleted. For example, 10d.
  For example:
  gcloud storage buckets create gs://BUCKET_NAME --project=PROJECT_ID --default-storage-class=STORAGE_CLASS --location=BUCKET_LOCATION --uniform-bucket-level-access
  --soft-delete-duration=RETENTION_DURATION
  For a complete list of options for bucket creation use the gcloud CLI, see buckets create options.