Customers with GCP CloudBender regions can now configure datastores that directly mount Google Cloud Storage buckets for regional workload use.
To configure, go to the Region Dashboard and click Add on the Datastores toolbar. For the datastore type, select Google Cloud Storage. Enter the bucket name as the URI and the bucket subpath in the Root field (or enter '/' for the entire bucket). If the instance service role does not have permission to access the bucket, upload a JSON key of a service account that does have the necessary access. Once the Datastore is created, you can create Datasets, Models, or Checkpoints based on the s3 bucket.
It is not recommended to use the Google Cloud Storage datastore for Volumes. The GCS mount is not completely POSIX compliant. Use the Google Persisent Disk datastore instead.