Service account storage quota limit exhausted!

[easy-reports]

Hello folks,

We are using a service account to upload files for one of organisation's project. The destination folder where files actually are being uploaded is owned by another account which has unlimited storage capacity. But the owner of the files being uploaded is still the service account which is legit.

We suddenly started facing the issue that service account's storage quota limit exhausted. This happened because all of the files being uploaded to the drive are owned by the service account and not by the account which owns the destination folder. 

First question: Is there any way to increase the the storage quota of the service account? 
Second question: We want to create more service accounts from the same Google account. Is it possible? How many service accounts can we create from a single Google account?

[lawrencenelson · Accepted solution]

Hi @easy-reports,

Welcome to the Google Cloud Community!

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@easy-reports wrote:

First question: Is there any way to increase the the storage quota of the service account? 

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Short answer: No, service accounts use the storage quota of the project itself, which you can request to increase.

You may refer to this documentation regarding Google storage.

You may also refer to this Stack Overflow thread that might help you with your issue.

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@easy-reports wrote:

Second question: We want to create more service accounts from the same Google account. Is it possible? How many service accounts can we create from a single Google account?

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By default, you can create up to 100 service accounts in a project. If you need to create additional service accounts, request a quota increase[1].

[1]. https://cloud.google.com/iam/docs/service-account-overview#locations