Google Storage for Developers gets Groups

Tuesday, May 03, 2011 » Cloud, Cloud Services, Google, IaaS

Google Storage for Developers, which is Google's new beta of a Cloud storage service similar to Amazon S3, announced a new feature intended to make team-based development easier.  They've added the concept of "groups" to their ACL (access control lists).  The announcement uses both the terminology "groups" and "projects." 

Apparently performing a get-acl function on an existing storage bucket will reveal the new ACL, and the announcement advises that "You should preserve these new ACL grants if you modify bucket ACLs."  The announcement indicated that there would be further changes rolling out in the next few days.  I haven't tested to see if it's actually functional yet.

Amazon S3 already has a "group" sharing functionality.  It'll be interesting to see if Google tries to differentiate theirs in any way.

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