# Using Google Cloud Storage **URL:** https://forum.duplicati.com/t/using-google-cloud-storage/9986 **Category:** Features **Created:** [June 1, 2020, 2:58pm UTC](https://forum.duplicati.com/t/using-google-cloud-storage/9986 "2020-06-01T14:58:56Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 2
### Author: ![ts678](https://forum.duplicati.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/8491ac/32.png) [@ts678](https://forum.duplicati.com/u/ts678) #### Post date: [June 2, 2020, 11:19pm UTC](https://forum.duplicati.com/t/using-google-cloud-storage/9986/2 "2020-06-02T23:19:17Z")
Welcome to the forum @Orlando_Tereza [Support for IAM Service Accounts on Google Cloud Storage #3835](https://github.com/duplicati/duplicati/issues/3835) seems to say the [built in GCS backend](https://duplicati.readthedocs.io/en/latest/05-storage-providers/#google-cloud-storage) doesn’t support it but that the [rclone storage type](https://duplicati.readthedocs.io/en/latest/05-storage-providers/#rclone) is a workaround. There’s a bit more from same author at [Restore with read-only database](https://forum.duplicati.com/t/restore-with-read-only-database/7735/11), however that seems a specialized need that may or may not care about. I’m not familiar with GCS permissions, but Duplicati needs to be able to upload files, download files, list the uploaded files, and (usually) delete files. If you want Duplicati to create a folder for its files, allow it to do so. There are special needs where people want to never delete (for example for security, or regulatory needs), but that means wasted space is not recycled when source files are deleted, and things just accumulate… [Google Cloud Storage](https://rclone.org/googlecloudstorage/) is the rclone documentation, and it specifically talks about [Service Account support](https://rclone.org/googlecloudstorage/#service-account-support). I have not used Google Cloud Storage or service accounts, so comments from other people are welcome. --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.duplicati.com/t/using-google-cloud-storage/9986)._