Google Drive cannot be used as a Web scale CDN, it is scaled for personal content sharing (you share files with friends/work group/company). Nor can an image be used on a high traffic website.

The main difference to the Drive/Photos combination is that photos and other file types are handled by the same app rather than by two different ones. These rules are not disclosed at this point unfortunately but for instance a publicly shared video can't be viewed by millions of anonymous sessions per day (use Youtube for that). The new app does what it says on the tin and lets you backup and sync photos and files from folders on your computer, USB drives and memory cards to the cloud. There is also a link to request more quota in the 'Quotas' tab in case you need more than the default 10M req/day such requests will go through a (light) manual review process.Īlso files have per-files playback limit which depends on many factors (Is the file shared publicly or just to your domain/users? Is it a video? An audio file? etc.). It's a per app quota.Īfter you've enabled the Drive API you can also set a per user rate limit (by default 1000 req per 100 sec) to prevent one user from depleting your app's quota. That’s three apps (four, if you count the new. In the 'Service' tab, the default quota allowed for each service is indicated.Ĭurrently for the Drive API it reads 'Courtesy limit: 1,000,000,000 queries/day'. All of this means that, right now, Google is developing the Assistant Driving Mode, a stopgap Android Auto app, and Google Maps’ driving interface. To view your allowed quota please create a project in the Google APIs Console.

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