SFTP and FTP for Google Cloud Storage

No. Amazon has Transfer Family and Azure has SFTP on Data Lake Gen2, but Google Cloud has no first-party managed SFTP — the usual approach is to run a Compute Engine VM with sshd and maintain it yourself. DocEvent gives you the endpoint without the VM.

You have three options on GCP: run your own Compute Engine VM with sshd (cheap on paper, yours to patch and monitor forever), install an SFTP gateway from the Google Cloud Marketplace (an instance you still operate, billed hourly), or use a managed service like DocEvent - connect your Google Cloud Storage bucket with a service-account key and the SFTP endpoint is live in minutes, with users, firewall and audit logging handled for you.

With a Google Cloud service-account key that you create and paste in. Grant it access to a single bucket and the endpoint can reach nothing else in the project; revoke or rotate the key in the Google console whenever you like.

Yes. Files land in your own bucket, so object versioning, retention policies, customer-managed encryption keys and lifecycle transitions to Nearline, Coldline or Archive all keep working exactly as configured.

More than the VM. The instance itself bills around the clock, but the real cost is operational: patching sshd, rotating and distributing keys, per-partner account management, disk sizing, monitoring, and being the person who gets paged when it stops. A managed endpoint removes all of it — DocEvent is free for up to five users and files land straight in your own bucket, so there is no server to own at all.

Third-party gateway images exist, and they work — but they are still an instance you deploy, pay for hourly, patch and monitor, plus the vendor's software fee on top. DocEvent is the same idea with the server removed: a managed endpoint billed per user, with per-user IP rules, SSH keys, an audit log and browser access included.

Yes. Each service is configured separately, so the same DocEvent account can front a Google Cloud Storage bucket, an Amazon S3 bucket and an Azure container at once, sharing users, firewall rules and the audit log.