Filestore release notes

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June 02, 2026

Feature

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

Feature

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

Feature

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

Feature

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.

January 20, 2026

Feature

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

October 20, 2025

Feature

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

Feature

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.

June 04, 2025

Feature

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

May 27, 2025

Feature

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.

April 28, 2025

Feature

Custom performance is now generally available for Filestore instances.

April 17, 2025

Feature

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.

April 07, 2025

Feature

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