Associate Cloud Engineer

Google Cloud's Data Access audit logs capture API operations that read data or configuration, including object-level reads in Cloud Storage (the DATA_READ log type). These logs are disabled by default because of their volume, so they must be explicitly enabled for the Cloud Storage API to ensure every read request against the bucket's objects is recorded, satisfying the legal requirement to track all data access. The other options either restrict access (without logging), scan for sensitive content, or manage authentication proxying — none of which produce a record of every read request.