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:
- Log in to the Cloudflare dashboard ↗ and select your account and domain.
- Go to Rules > Cloud Connector.
- Select Google Cloud Platform - Cloud Storage as your cloud provider.
- Enter the bucket URL. You can structure this 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 tohttps://<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 wanthttps://<YOUR_HOSTNAME>/eu/index.html
to map to a file in your bucket, the file should be placed athttps://storage.googleapis.com/<BUCKET_NAME>/eu/index.html
.
- Subdomain-style URL: For
- (Optional) Use the Rewrite URL feature of Transform 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. - Click Next and enter a descriptive name like “Route EU visitors to GCP” in Cloud Connector name.
- Under If, select Custom filter expression and enter the following expression:
(ip.geoip.is_in_european_union)
This expression targets traffic from European Union users. - 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.