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Check out Google's Coldline https://cloud.google.com/storage/archival/ https://cloud.google.com/storage/archival/

• yeahokwhatever 9y ago
  Google Glacier, aka G2. I checked it out. I like that I don't have to do calculus to understand how I'll be billed, or write my own retrieval software.
  • vgt 9y ago
    Also nice to have sub-millisecond latency to first byte (versus multi-hour) and performance characteristics of normal GCS.. so you could run a rare MapReduce job on it just the same as regular GCS :)
  • Johnny555 9y ago
    AWS has greatly simplified their Glacier pricing from the inscrutable transfer rate pricing to more common sense latency based pricing. If you want your data back in < 5 minutes it's $0.03/GB, 3 - 5 hours, $0.01/GB, 5 - 12 hours, $0.0025/GB AWS Glacier is cheaper per month than Google ColdStorage, but Google doesn't charge more for faster access to your data. So maybe you still need that Calculus to figure out which is a better deal for your data access pattern.
    • ValentineC 9y ago
      This does not include standard AWS egress pricing, which is something like $92/TB.
      • Johnny555 9y ago
        Right, and it doesn't include standard GCE egress pricing, which is something like $120/TB. https://cloud.google.com/storage/pricing https://cloud.google.com/storage/pricing
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        • Veratyr 9y ago
          Given TFA, it's probably more accurate to say $85/TB: https://cloud.google.com/network-tiers/pricing https://cloud.google.com/network-tiers/pricing
          • Johnny555 9y ago
            Does that apply to storage egress? The storage pricing page lists only one network tier: https://cloud.google.com/storage/pricing https://cloud.google.com/storage/pricing
• comboy 9y ago
  99% availability seems not so "highly available" as they call it. It's just SLA, but that means if the service is down for 7 hours every month it still meets the availability SLA. I know it may not matter that much for backup, I'm just wondering why would they set the bar so low - i.e. how do they organize the storage that they had to set it so low. I'm guessing MAIDs but I still don't get it.
  • manigandham 9y ago
    That's for the coldline class. It's all the same GCS system and the top multi-region class has 99.95% availability https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/storage-classes#comparison_of_storage_classes https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/storage-classes#compar...