As businesses move to the cloud, there’s a growing demand for core services such as storage that power cloud applications. Today we are introducing a preview of Google Storage for Developers, a RESTful cloud service built on Google’s storage and networking infrastructure.

Using this RESTful API, developers can easily connect their applications to fast, reliable storage replicated across several US data centers. It is highly scalable - supporting read-after-write data consistency, objects of hundreds of gigabytes in size per request, and a domain-scoped namespace. In addition, developers can manage their storage from a web-based interface and use GSUtil, an open-source command-line tool and library.

Google Storage is designed for sharing and collaboration, with built-in authentication services and access controls based on Google Accounts. This makes it easy to control which users have access to what information in your internal and external applications. Right now Google Storage only supports standard Google Accounts, but we’re working hard to add support for Google Apps accounts.

We are introducing Google Storage for Developers to a limited number of developers at this time. During the preview, each developer will receive up to 100GB of data storage and 300GB monthly bandwidth at no charge. To learn more and sign up for the waiting list, please visit our website.

We’ll be demoing the service at Google I/O in our session and the Developer Sandbox. We’re looking forward to meeting those of you who are attending.

by Jessie Jiang, Google Storage for Developers Team