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Send EU visitors to a Google Cloud Storage bucket

Route all traffic from EU visitors to a Google Cloud Storage bucket using Cloud Connector.

To route requests from visitors in the European Union to a Google Cloud Storage bucket:

  1. In the Cloudflare dashboard, go to the Cloud Connector page.

    Go to Cloud Connector

  2. Select Google Cloud Storage as your cloud provider.

  3. Enter the bucket URL. You can structure the URL in two ways:

    • Subdomain-style URL: For <BUCKET_NAME>.storage.googleapis.com, your files should be organized in the root of the bucket. For example, https://<YOUR_HOSTNAME>/index.html will map to https://<BUCKET_NAME>.storage.googleapis.com/index.html.
    • URI path-style URL: If you set the hostname to storage.googleapis.com, your bucket must include folders corresponding to the intended URI paths. For example, if you want https://<YOUR_HOSTNAME>/eu/index.html to map to a file in your bucket, the file should be placed at https://storage.googleapis.com/<BUCKET_NAME>/eu/index.html.

  4. (Optional) Use URL Rewrite Rules to adjust the URL structure. For example, you can create a URL rewrite that changes /eu to /<BUCKET_NAME> to match the URI path-style URL structure.

  5. (Optional) Use Cache Rules to adjust the caching behavior for objects returned from the bucket. For example, you can create a cache rule that caches every returned object matching the /eu URI path for seven days (defined through the Edge TTL setting).

  6. Select Next and enter a descriptive name like Route EU visitors to GCP in Cloud Connector name.

  7. Under If, select Custom filter expression and enter the following expression: (ip.src.is_in_european_union)
    This expression targets traffic from European Union users.

  8. Select Deploy to activate the rule.

This configuration will route traffic from EU visitors to your Google Cloud Storage bucket. Make sure to replace <YOUR_HOSTNAME> with your actual hostname and adjust the example paths according to your setup.