Google Cloud Next is where cloud architects, platform engineers, and Workspace admins come to find out what’s changing across Google — what’s new in GCS and Pub/Sub, where Cloud Run is headed, what’s coming for Workspace. Files.com is on the floor, with one message on the booth: extend Google Workspace with enterprise-grade sharing controls.
Google gives you great building blocks. Google Cloud Storage holds the files. Pub/Sub moves the events. Cloud Functions and Cloud Run run the code. What Google doesn’t give you — and, unlike AWS, doesn’t even half-build — is the finished file-sharing product on top: the partner-onboarding wizard, the share links, the inboxes, the audit-grade logging, the workflow engine, and SOC 2, HIPAA, and GDPR built into the app itself.
Files.com is that product. It sits on top of your Google Cloud Storage and Google Drive, adds the sign-in, permissions, protocols, and audit trail they were missing, and publishes every file event to Pub/Sub. Your data stays in Google; Files.com handles the file sharing and automation on top.
Files.com runs on top of the storage and identity you already have on Google. The data stays in your GCS bucket and your Drive; Files.com adds sign-in, permissions, the SFTP and FTPS protocols, automation, and the workflows you use with outside partners.
Mount your Google Cloud Storage bucket as a folder inside Files.com, or run scheduled syncs between GCS and any other storage. The data stays in your own bucket, encryption-at-rest stays where GCS set it, and Files.com uses Google’s native GCS API — not the S3-compatibility shim other tools bolt onto.
Connect Google Drive as a folder inside Files.com. Drive stays the surface your Workspace users work in, and Files.com adds the partner exchange, share-link controls, and audit trail behind it — so outside counterparties can send and receive files without a Drive account.
Run sign-in for the whole platform through Google Workspace — single sign-on, automatic user provisioning over SCIM, and access driven by Google groups. New people are added and removed automatically; no one gets handed raw bucket or Drive access.
Every Files.com event — uploads, downloads, shares, deletes, permission changes, automation runs, transfer status — publishes to Google Pub/Sub in real time. Cloud Functions, Cloud Run, Dataflow, BigQuery, and your SIEM all read from the same Pub/Sub topics the rest of your Google stack already uses.
Scheduled syncs, partner drops, file transformations, and multi-step workflows run as one product. The automation a Google-stack team would otherwise build out of Cloud Functions, Cloud Scheduler, and Workflows is ready to use out of the box.
A forensic record of who shared what outside the company, with role-based permissions, IP allowlisting, and audit log export. Files.com holds SOC 2 Type II, a HIPAA BAA, and a GDPR DPA, and the audit trail is one an auditor will accept.
SFTP, FTPS, and WebDAV on top of your bucket — the protocols Google does not ship as a first-party service — plus GPG encrypt and decrypt on the file path, which Google has no first-party answer for either.
It works the same way whether the storage underneath is a GCS bucket or a Google Drive. Files.com sits on top and runs the file sharing for you. Sign in through Google instead of handing out raw access. Set real permissions. Serve the SFTP, FTPS, and WebDAV protocols Google mostly doesn’t offer, plus GPG encrypt and decrypt. Automate transfers, give partners their own channels, and keep a record of who shared what outside the company.
Equifax runs on Google Cloud, and Equifax is a Files.com customer — proof that Files.com handles serious, regulated workloads on Google. We’re the #1 managed file transfer vendor on Gartner Peer Insights, and Files.com starts at a price a single team can self-approve, with published pricing and a path through Google Cloud Marketplace for annual deals. If you’re building the file layer on top of your Google stack, come find us on the floor.
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