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title: Google Cloud Storage permissions
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# Google Cloud Storage permissions

For configuration options, check the storage section on the [configuration]({{< relref "./#storage" >}}) page.

## Permissions
The following authentication methods are supported:
- Google Cloud Platform environment variable `GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS`
- Google Cloud Platform Workload Identity

The `(service-)account` that will communicate towards GCS should be assigned to the bucket which will receive the traces and should have the following IAM policies within the bucket:

- `storage.objects.create`
- `storage.objects.delete`
- `storage.objects.get`
- `storage.buckets.get`
- `storage.objects.list`
