Other cloud providers like AWS and Azure use hot-potato routing which has lower performance and reliability than GCP's current network offering. So Google is o

Other cloud providers like AWS and Azure use hot-potato routing which has lower performance and reliability than GCP's current network offering. So Google is offering a new "standard tier" equivalent to AWS and Azure, and undercutting both of them on network egress costs by a small amount. Network egress costs are still astronomical.