Google has announced that it will be introducing a new feature to its Google Docs web app within the next month that will allow users to upload files of any format to be stored within the cloud.

Following in the footsteps of its move to offer users of its Picasa Web Album service additional storage space, at a fee, Google will now allow that space to be shared across its most popular web apps including Docs, Picasa and Gmail.

Under the heading of this new feature free users will be allowed 1 GB of storage for non-Docs files with the option to upgrade at a relatively cheap $0.25 USD per gigabyte per year, meaning that an annual fee of only $10 USD would allow 40 GB of storage. Uploadable files will be limited to 250 MB, however, so Google’s cloud is not the place those who need to store and share large files.