You can configure which encryption types are allowed or prohibited for creating new objects in a bucket. For more information, see Enforce or restrict the encryption types for a bucket.
]]>You can now use Storage Insights datasets to help manage your data security and compliance. The ability to identify publicly accessible objects is now generally available. Additionally, new fields in bucket and object metadata schemas, such as encryption, retentionPeriod, encryptionType, and retentionExpirationTime, help you audit encryption configurations and monitor data retention policies. For more information, see
Storage Insights datasets and
Dataset tables and schemas.
Anywhere Cache has been renamed to Rapid Cache.
]]>Object uploads that use customer-managed encryption keys (CMEK) now fail if the Cloud Storage service agent lacks the necessary IAM role to decrypt the object. For steps to grant the required role, see Assign a Cloud KMS key to a service agent.
]]>Rapid Bucket is now generally available. Rapid Bucket lets you store objects in the Rapid storage class by defining a zone as a bucket's location. This architecture optimizes data access and I/O performance between your storage and compute resources. Rapid Bucket is most suitable for data-intensive workloads like AI/ML and high-scale data analytics.
For more information, see Rapid Bucket and Create zonal buckets.
]]>You can now identify publicly accessible objects (preview) by using Storage Insights datasets. The object metadata schema includes fields that provide the public access status of your objects, which lets you understand, organize, and manage publicly accessible objects at scale.
]]>You can now analyze object data and metadata from your Storage Insights
datasets by using BigQuery ObjectRef functions. The ref column in the
dataset contains a reference to the Cloud Storage object which you can use with
ObjectRef functions to analyze object content. For example, you can build
queries to help detect sensitive information in documents or to generate image
descriptions. For more information, see
Analyze object data and metadata using BigQuery.
Object change notification is deprecated on January 30, 2026. To generate notifications for changes to objects, use Pub/Sub notifications for Cloud Storage instead.
]]>Previously, when listing buckets by using the client libraries, JSON API, or RPC API, the request returned an error if some buckets couldn't be reached because a location was temporarily unavailable. You can now use a partial success option to return a list of buckets that are available, as well as the names of any buckets that can't be reached.
]]>Bucket relocation with write downtime now supports completed multipart uploads. If a multipart upload is started before relocation begins and is completed before the final synchronization step, the objects are successfully relocated. In-progress multipart uploads continue to block the final synchronization step until they are either completed or cancelled. For more information, see Bucket relocation overview.
]]>Cloud Storage now offers support in the Thailand, Bangkok (asia-southeast3)
region. To learn more about supported locations, see Cloud Storage bucket
locations.
You can now use dry run mode to simulate storage batch operations jobs without modifying or deleting data. Dry run helps you to validate your job configuration before running the actual operation.
To learn how to configure a dry run job, see Create and manage batch operations jobs.
]]>When you bulk restore soft-deleted objects, you can restore objects that were live at a specific time. You can also choose the objects to restore based on the object creation time.
]]>You can now generate Storage Insights datasets for activity data to receive insights about object mutations, errors, and activity trends across projects, buckets, and regions. For more information, see Dataset schema for activity data tables.
You can now use Rapid Cache to serve data for object read requests issued by BigQuery to accelerate data reads for your applications. For more information, see Using Rapid Cache to accelerate reads for BigQuery.
]]>You can now use the Google Cloud console to relocate buckets. Using bucket relocation, you can move an existing bucket from one location to another without changing the bucket's name or requiring manual transfer of data within the bucket.
]]>You can now enable Autoclass for buckets with hierarchical namespace enabled.
]]>user_agent (#1596) (02f1451)download_ranges compatible with asyncio.create_task(..) (#1591) (faf8b83)download_ranges compatible with asyncio.create_task(..) (#1591) (faf8b83)You can now use Storage batch operations to create and manage retention configurations for objects in bulk using the PutMetadata transformation.
Object contexts are now available in Preview. Object contexts let you attach contextual information to your objects to help you manage and discover data.
]]>The bucket_attributes_view and bucket_attributes_latest_snapshot_view tables in Storage Insights datasets are updated with two new fields: objectCount and totalSize. objectCount reflects the total number of objects in the bucket and totalSize reflects the total size of the bucket in bytes. The tables are automatically updated with the new fields in all existing datasets and are included in all new dataset configurations.