Bigtable OAuth scopes
Google Cloud products, such as Compute Engine andDataflow, have the ability to connect to Bigtable byletting you specify OAuth scopes. To make this work, you need to specifythe appropriate OAuth scopes when you create resources such asCompute Engine virtual machine instances. Be sure toenable access to Bigtable when you create yourresource.
When you set up your resources for a Google Cloud product, choose the mostrestrictive scopes that will support your application's requirements. You cannotchange the scopes after you create a resource.
Bigtable supports the following scopes:
Scope URI forgcloud | Description |
|---|---|
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/bigtable.admin | Alias for bothbigtable.admin.instance andbigtable.admin.table. |
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/bigtable.admin.instance | Enables creation and management of Bigtable instances and clusters. |
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/bigtable.admin.table | Enables creation and management of Bigtable tables and their column families. |
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/bigtable.data | Enables read and write access to data stored in Bigtable tables. |
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/bigtable.data.readonly | Enables read-only access to data stored in Bigtable tables. |
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-bigtable.data | Enables read and write access to data stored in Bigtable tables. |
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-bigtable.data.readonly | Enables read-only access to data stored in Bigtable tables. |
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform | Enables full access to all Google Cloud products, including Bigtable. |
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform.readonly | Enables read-only access to all Google Cloud products, including Bigtable. |
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Last updated 2026-02-19 UTC.