Google storage expiry time period

Google Cloud Cloud Foundations & Onboarding
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I have an ex-google bucket whose billing is disabled.I still have data in that big query.I am curious to know for how long google keeps that data and if i need it in future will I be able to fetch that data ?

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@yasir_2023

Here I found matching with your situation. I never heard that your data will be auto-deleted if you don’t delete it manually or set mechanism to delete it programmatically.

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Thanks @VishalBulbule for replying, Please address following:

  1. If I disable the account ,is data still there in disabled account and will I be able to query that data without any charges in future.

  2. from your above statement it seems that google does not delete data from disabled accounts, is this any grace period or the data will remain there forever.

  3. assuming that data is there forever, is there any monthly/yearly cost associated to store the data in a disabled account.

I appreciate your kind response.

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@kolban it will be helpful if you share your insight on below from Google side.

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Saldy, I’m no expert in this area and in addition, all my posts to this community are as a community member, so PLEASE never take what I say as any kind of formal response from Google. Think of me as just another fan of Google Cloud and a community member.

At first I thought “Wouldn’t a the de-association of a Google Cloud billing id be the same as deleting the project?” … if that were the case, then all resources of the project would become unavailable. That would include Cloud Storage buckets and BigQuery datasets/tables. However, then something new dawned on me … if one removes the a billing id, maybe any associated projects drop down to free-tier.

The Google Cloud free-tier can be read bout here. What I sense is that the project might still “live” but now you only have access to a subset of the products and for those products, there are usage restrictions. For example, for Google Cloud storage, free tier offers (as of 2023-02):

  • 5 GB-months of regional storage (US regions only) per month
  • 5,000 Class A Operations per month
  • 50,000 Class B Operations per month
  • 100 GB network egress from North America to all region destinations (excluding China and Australia) per month

If (and I’m not saying this is what is happening) this is the case, then it might appear that the Google Cloud project is still running and the resources available to you … but if you hit any of the above monthly limits, service will abruptly stop. Take care that you don’t rely on a service at free tier that may be turned off when you reach the max.