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Unique bucket names in Google Cloud Storage

One interesting thing about Google Cloud Storage buckets, that maybe not all people is aware of, is that their name is unique at Google Cloud Storage level (and not at project level, as most of us would assume).

That means that a bucket name must be unique at global level, and that is a problem as some of the names we choose may already exist.

The way Google Cloud recommends is creating the names of the buckets as subdomains of an owned domain. Google ensures that it will verify the domain property before creating the bucket. In that way nobody will be able to create buckets using our domain and, therefore, our buckets will become unique at Google Cloud level.

For multisite projects, it is also a good idea to add the bucket location to the name, so equivalent buckets could coexist in different locations.

Examples of that exposed would be:

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