Google Cloud Storage (GCS) is in my (biased) opinion better than S3 in most ways. GCS's default buckets just work within all the US. For no extra $$, you get s

Google Cloud Storage (GCS) is in my (biased) opinion better than S3 in most ways. GCS's default buckets just work within all the US. For no extra $$, you get something you can read and write to at massive throughput in us-west1 (Oregon), us-central1 (Iowa) and us-east1 (South Carolina). This has totally changed how people use our compute offering compared to say EC2 plus S3. Similarly, we introduced Nearline which S3 sort of copied with Infrequent Access. Except S3-IA rounds all files up to 128 KB. Nearline is simple $.01/GB/month plus $.01/GB retrieved. All of this with the team maintaining their own JSON API and compatibility with the S3 API (which I use from my NAS box at home). tl;dr: GCS easily goes head to head with S3 (and often comes out on top). Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud (and use GCS myself).