Storage Transfer Service supports transfers from cloud and on-premises Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) sources

## Feature Storage Transfer Service supports transfers from cloud and on-premises Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) sources. This feature is in limited release; complete the form linked from the user guide at [Transfer from HDFS to Cloud Storage](https://cloud.google.com/storage-transfer/docs/hdfs) to request access. This new feature supports use cases such as migrating from on-premises storage to Cloud Storage, archiving data to free up on-premises storage space, replicating data to Google Cloud for business continuity, or transferring data to Google Cloud for analysis and processing.