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> Block Storage Volumes are highly available, fast, and inexpensive – $0.10 per GB (free during the beta). This is significantly more expensive than AWS S3 or

by martey 9y ago

> Block Storage Volumes are highly available, fast, and inexpensive – $0.10 per GB (free during the beta). This is significantly more expensive than AWS S3 or Google Cloud Storage. The last time S3 charged similar prices was in January 2014: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-update-new-m3-features-reduced-ebs-prices-reduced-s3-prices/ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-update-new-m3-features-... edit: I'm keeping this comment up in case other people have the same confusion I did.

misframer 9y ago
This is more like EBS on AWS, which is also $0.10 / GB-month for gp2 volumes.
minxomat 9y ago
That's pretty standard pricing (look at DO block storage or Vultr's offerings). Keep in mind that this is true block storage, not document or object storage. You can mount object storage, sure-but it's always going to be less reliable than actual block storage.
tw04 9y ago
Block storage is completely different from object storage (S3). You're comparing apples and Volkswagens. This competes with ebs, except with more redundancy.
lovelearning 9y ago
I think this is a bit misleading. In my experience, EBS/S3 and GCS expenses are dominated by data transfer costs. Linode is providing 1 to 20 TB data transfer free with the compute. While comparing, we'd have to compare (one Linode plus block storage costs) to (one EC2/GCE node plus EBS/S3/GCS storage costs plus network transfer costs).