hurstdog can speak to this more, but we absolutely don't scream on latency (particularly time to first byte). Internally, we rely heavily on caching, and that's

hurstdog can speak to this more, but we absolutely don't scream on latency (particularly time to first byte). Internally, we rely heavily on caching, and that's just now been made available (in Alpha) for Cloud CDN to wrap GCS. Does <100ms for cache fill matter, or just aggregate p95 < 100ms including caching? I'd also like to point everyone at Zach Bjornson's wonderful blogpost from last year [1], which was both thorough and independent! Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud. [1] http://blog.zachbjornson.com/2015/12/29/cloud-storage-performance.html http://blog.zachbjornson.com/2015/12/29/cloud-storage-perfor...