45TB on Google Drive for free

Use Google cloud Free Tier to have 45 TB of cloud storage for free (https://cloud.google.com/free).

It is possible to use Google Cloud, for free, and use Google Drive up to 45 TB, through the Google IAM Service Accounts (https://cloud.google.com/iam/docs/service-accounts)

Documentation

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PEBrzBDQJRsKWTYnjzrp8eL1H7TzVQdIqrhLprTyrqs/edit?usp=sharing

Note

The owner account appears to be the one who uploaded the file. In other words, if a folder is shared by someone else, giving you read/write access to the folder, but you upload a 2GB file to it, then the 2GB file is owned by you and goes against your storage limit; not the storage limit of the folder owner.

Project Creation

https://cloud.google.com/resource-manager/docs/creating-managing-projects

• It’s possible create 30 project
• Every project can have 100 Service Account
• Every Service Account can have 15 GB in Drive

Total space on Drive with one Google Cloud account: (100 x 15) x 30 = 45 TB

• Creation Project’s Service Account

  • https://cloud.google.com/iam/docs/creating-managing-service-accounts#iam-service-accounts-create-rest

• Max 100 Service Account per Project

  • https://cloud.google.com/iam/docs/service-accounts

• Creation Keys for Service Account

  • https://cloud.google.com/iam/docs/creating-managing-service-account-keys#iam-service-account-keys-create-rest

• Adding role to the Project on Service Account

  • https://cloud.google.com/iam/reference/rest/v1/projects.serviceAccounts/setIamPolicy
  • roles/owner

• Add rule to Resource Service Account

  • https://cloud.google.com/iam/docs/granting-roles-to-service-accounts#granting_access_to_a_service_account_for_a_resource
  • roles/owner
  • roles/servicemanagement.admin

• Enable Google Drive API

  • https://cloud.google.com/service-infrastructure/docs/service-management/reference/rest/v1/services/enable
  • ServiceName: drive.googleapis.com

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