Soft Delete recommender

This page provides information about the soft delete recommender and describes how to enable and use recommendations.

Overview

The soft delete recommender provides insights on when it's best to enable or disable soft delete on buckets in your project based on your data usage and assessed impact to Cloud Billing and security.

Criteria for receiving soft delete recommendations

The soft delete recommender provides recommendations for buckets when the following conditions are met:

  • Recommendations on enabling soft delete:

    • Buckets whose soft delete costs would increase by less than 10% of your total Cloud Storage costs.

    • Buckets whose costs total to at least $1.00 USD.