Note that with "on-demand I/O" you can basically remove this I/O throttle (best effort though) at an increased cost. Nearline is still cheaper than dealing wit

Note that with "on-demand I/O" you can basically remove this I/O throttle (best effort though) at an increased cost. Nearline is still cheaper than dealing with glacier (or even S3 Infrequent Access) particularly for small files. Disclaimer: I work on Compute Engine (GCE) but not Cloud Storage (GCS).