Yep. Nearline is great. Just so we're clear though: milliseconds ;). There's no latency penalty to get your bytes back, even with Coldline. We do charge a retri

Yep. Nearline is great. Just so we're clear though: milliseconds ;). There's no latency penalty to get your bytes back, even with Coldline. We do charge a retrieval fee because the pricing is determined by a "promise" that you won't touch the data frequently (roughly once a month for Nearline and once a quarter for Coldline), otherwise you should use our regular flavors. Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud and am a happy GCS customer.