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Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud. There are actually a few options in egress land for us if cost is your primary concern. If you're doing serving over http(
by boulos 9y ago
Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud.
There are actually a few options in egress land for us if cost is your primary concern.
If you're doing serving over http(s), you should probably be using Cloud CDN with your bucket [1] or put one of our partners like Cloudflare or Fastly with CDN Interconnect [2]. Both of these get you closer to $.04-$.08/GB depending on src/dest.
If not, and you don't care that we have a global backbone, you can get a more AWS-like network with our Standard Tier [3] (curiously with pricing squirreled away at [4], I'll file a bug). The packets will hop off our network in a hot potato / asap fashion, so you're not riding our backbone as much.
[1] http://cloud.google.com/cdn http://cloud.google.com/cdn
[2] https://cloud.google.com/interconnect/docs/how-to/cdn-interconnect https://cloud.google.com/interconnect/docs/how-to/cdn-interc...
[3] https://cloud.google.com/network-tiers/ https://cloud.google.com/network-tiers/
[4] https://cloud.google.com/network-tiers/pricing#standard_tier_pricing https://cloud.google.com/network-tiers/pricing#standard_tier...
- eropple 9y agoI know about Standard Tier, though it had slipped my mind--thanks for pointing it out. It's still way too expensive. And Cloud CDN isn't an appropriate tool for my use case. I really do just need a bunch of egress from a single location that isn't insanely expensive. $0.085/GB is in that insanely-expensive tier, for me.
- boulos 9y agoUnderstood. Out of curiosity, how much egress are you doing? (We, and other providers, need this feedback to prioritize more bulk egress solutions)
- eropple 9y agoDon't know yet! But I expect to see between 100x and 1000x on a per-megabyte basis. Not evenly distributed across objects (objects between 40MB and 150MB), but as a rough estimate. I'd be happy to talk further via email; it's not secret, just not public.
- nik736 9y agoWhy would this matter? Your bandwidth pricing is a joke. Yes, you got a nice network and yes you pay premiums to get transit of providers that are "hard to work with". And yes, you have dark fiber between your locations, which is costing a lot of money, but even considering those facts you are still charging at least 10x as much as your bandwidth should cost your customers. How have you even calculated those prices? "Let's look at AWS and make it even more expensive"?
- eropple 9y agoGCS's prices are lower than AWS's for single-region egress, though. Check 'boulos's link. Not by enough, but they are.