Change buckets location/location type

Google Cloud Compute Infrastructure
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From the first of October, Google started charging for “Networking Traffic Egress GCP Multi-region within Europe” in the section “Cloud Storage”. As I understand it, we should change the location and/or location type of buckets. The buckets contain data that our users use and it is constantly updated and added. Unfortunately, we can’t change the settings for an existing bucket. Does anyone know the easiest way to solve this problem?

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Hi @VadimBaryshev ,

Faces similar issue but only approach we followed -

  1. Move data to another temporary bucket using the storage transfer tool

  2. Delete the bucket

  3. Create a bucket with the same name and updated configuration

  4. Move back data to a new bucket using the storage transfer tool.

This approach cause issue if its production, because file transfer will take time-based on the volume of data and in that windows transaction might fail using bucket data.

Any better solution will be appriciated.

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Hi @VadimBaryshev ,

The approach that @VishalBulbule described is documented here: https://cloud.google.com/storage-transfer/docs/cloud-storage-to-cloud-storage#keep_bucket_name. That same guide also provides guidance to minimize downtime and optimizing the transfer speed when using Storage Transfer Service.

Please also see https://cloud.google.com/storage-transfer/docs/move-your-cloud-storage-data-to-another-location#choose_a_new_location , for guidance with choosing an appropriate target location.

I hope this helps.

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