Prepare Your Google Cloud Storage Connection

Before you can connect your Google Cloud Storage (GCS) to Data Cloud, gather the required information and complete the necessary actions in Google Cloud Storage.

1. Identify the name of the GCS bucket that stores your data.
2. Identify the folder within the GCS bucket that contains the data to connect. The root directory can't serve as the parent directory.

1. Interoperability access and secret keys are credentials Salesforce uses ‌to identify and access your GCS bucket. To generate the keys, see Create Interoperability Keys for Google Cloud Storage Bucket.
2. Add a service account as a principal in your GCS bucket. To learn how, see Add a Principal to Google Cloud Storage Bucket.
3. To make sure that Salesforce can access data in your GCS instance, see Set Permissions for Google Cloud Storage Bucket.
4. If your GSC instance restricts access by IP address, add the Data Cloud IP addresses to your allowlist.

After gathering this information and completing these actions in Google, you can connect your GCS instance to Salesforce.