Google Cloud Platform

Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is a suite of cloud computing services. GDS maintains a central account for use across GDS.

This section contains information on:

Logs data on the use of many GCP resources is captured and stored in Google Cloud Storage buckets. More information on this data can be found on the GCP logs data source page.

Governance

GCP is certified as ISO/IEC 27001:2022 compliant.

In many cases (such as with the collection and use of Google Analytics data), the storage and usage of data within GCP is governed by Data Protection Impact Assessments.

Projects

Projects should have logging set up (and ideally routed to the all_gcp_logs dataset), quotas applied, and terraformed permissions.

Key projects and the quotas applied to them are listed below.

Project name	Project ID and link	Purpose	Quotas	Notes
GA4 analytics	ga4-analytics-352613	To store GOV.UK GA4 and Search Console data	1TB per user per day and a global limit of 3.5TB per day
Universal analytics	govuk-bigquery-analytics	For all work around the collection and use of GOV.UK Universal Analytics data	Global limit of 3TB per day	This project should not be heavily used now that GOV.UK has migrated to GA4
GDS BigQuery reporting	gds-bq-reporting	To enable querying of our GA4 data in various reporting tools while monitoring costs and access	Global limit of 15TB per day
GDS BigQuery data	gds-bq-data	To store data for use in various reporting tools while monitoring costs and access	1TB per user per day and a global limit of 3TB per day
GDS GA Archive	gds-ga-archive	To store historic Universal Analytics data from properties managed by GDS	None

This page was last reviewed on 20 March 2025. It needs to be reviewed again on 20 September 2025 .