I created a bucket in a project. I subsequently deleted that project, so its bucket should be deleted along with it.
Now I'm attempting to make a bucket with the same name in another project, but I get the error:
"This bucket name is already in use. Bucket names must be globally unique. Try another name."
It's been over 12 hours. Documentation suggests that bucket IDs are supposed to get released if they are no longer in use. Will that bucket ID ever become available again?
From the support documentation:
Shutting down a project stops all billing and traffic serving, shuts
down any Google Cloud Platform App Engine applications, and terminates
all Compute Engine instances. All project data associated with Google
Cloud and Google APIs services becomes inaccessible.
After a 7-day waiting period, the project and associated data are
permanently deleted from the console.
Note that after the 7-day waiting period ends, the time it takes to
completely delete a project may vary. For example, if a project has
billing set up, it might not be completely deleted until the current
billing cycle ends, you receive the next bill, and your account is
successfully charged. Additionally, the number and types of services
in use may also affect when the system permanently deletes a project.
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I have been monitoring Cloud Storage billing daily and saw two unexpected, large spikes in "Download Worldwide Destinations (excluding Asia & Australia)" this month. The cost for this SKU is typically around US$2-4 daily; however, these two daily spikes have been $89 and $15.
I have enabled GCS Bucket Logging soon after the $89 spike, hoping to deduce what causes it the next time it happens, but when the $15 spike happened yesterday, I was unable to pinpoint which service or files downloaded have caused this spike.
There is a Log field named Location, but it appears to be linked to the region where a bucket is located, not the location of the downloader (that would contribute to the "Worldwide Destinations" egress).
As far as I know, my services are all in the southamerica-east1 region, but it's possible that there is either a legacy service or a misconfigured one that has been responsible for these spikes.
The bucket that did show up outside my region is in the U.S., but I concluded that it is not responsible for the spikes because the files there are under 30 kB and have only been downloaded 8 times according to the logs.
Is there any way to filter the logs so that it tells me as much information as possible to help me track down what is adding up the "Download Worldwide Destinations" cost? Specifically:
which files were downloaded
if it was one of my Google Cloud services, which one it was
Enable usage logs and export the log data to a new bucket.
Google Cloud Usage logs & storage logs
The logs will contain the IP address, you will need to use a geolocation service to map IP addresses to city/country.
Note:
Cloud Audit Logs do not track access to public objects.
Google Cloud Audit Logs restrictions
I am trying to understand how to lower my Google Cloud SQL bill. I have some databases that are not used frequently and store a modest (100MB) amount of data. I am thinking about stopping the VMs associated with those databases and disconnecting the billing account whenever the application that uses them is not running. Will my data persist even though the vm is off and the billing account is disconnected?
You can stop the instance when you are not using it, and this would stop the billing for it without any worries about the information being deleted. This is mentioned over at this document.
Nevertheless, if you disconnect the billing account from the project for a long period of time, or it remains disabled, the instance may be deleted as mentioned over at this document.
I hope you find this information useful.
I am working on a project for a client and a couple of weeks ago most of the content "disappeared".
Images and videos are routed through FileStack (a file processing service) but actually stored on Google Cloud Storage in one bucket.
On the day in question everything was working, and then everything stopped working. When we investigated it turned out that the bucket FileStack was pointing to was non-existent, so we created a new bucket with the same name and everything magically worked itself out.
Now my question is, where did all the files from the disappeared bucket go? Is it possible to get them back? Is it possible to figure out what happened?
I have extensively reviewed the audit log in the Activity tab and it shows zero activity for the bucket in question. Is there anywhere else we can investigate?
Can you please send email to gs-team#google.com, noting the bucket name and an example object name from that bucket, along with the last time you were successfully able to access that bucket/object? Doing it that way will avoid exposing these names on the public forum. Please mention my name in the message, so I will get it and can investigate.
Thanks,
Mike Schwartz
GCS Team
When an object is deleted, it's deleted from the system and there isn't any option to recover it [1]. You can prevent this behavior by using object versioning [2]. And to get a better overview of the activity in Cloud Storage you can enable the "Data Access logs" [3].
About the reason why the objects has disappeared, as a first workaround you can review if there's an Object Lifecycle enabled [4].
https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/deleting-objects
https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/object-versioning
https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/audit-logs
https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/lifecycle
We store some of our sql files in storage, and load them to execute from time to time.
Today at some moment one of those files became 503 Service Unavailable.
The interesting part is that we have few of these files in one folder, and the rest were ok, except this one.
Is this google side issue, if so, what are guarantees that this won't happen again?
I can provide more detailed information to a google guy if needed, the project id, and the files, and the logs etc.
In google cloud storage, I'm trying to create a bucket with name "www.coladmmo.com" but it says "This bucket name is already in use. Bucket names must be globally unique. Try another name. " I only created this bucket with this name successfully before and i deleted the entire project. But now it says that it is already in use.
The bucket probably still exists in the project you deleted. See the Create, shut down, and restore projects documentation page, specifically:
After a 30-day waiting period, the project and associated data are
permanently deleted from the console.
Note that after the 30-day waiting period ends, the time it takes to
completely delete a project may vary. For example, if a project has
billing set up, it might not be completely deleted until the current
billing cycle ends, you receive the next bill, and your account is
successfully charged. Additionally, the number and types of services
in use may also affect when the system permanently deletes a project.