The gcs bucket just needs to be set to region? See documentation:- Data egress from your bucket to a non-Cloud Storage Google Cloud service is free in the fol

The gcs bucket just needs to be set to region? See documentation:- Data egress from your bucket to a non-Cloud Storage Google Cloud service is free in the following cases: Your bucket is located in a region, the Google Cloud service is located in a multi-region, and both locations are on the same continent. For example, accessing data in a US-EAST1 bucket with a US App Engine instance. Your bucket is located in a multi-region, the Google Cloud service is located in a region, and both locations are on the same continent. For example, accessing data in an EU bucket with an EU-WEST1 GKE instance. EDIT 2: the cloud ai documentation suggests the correct setting is regional/regional https://cloud.google.com/ml-engine/docs/regions https://cloud.google.com/ml-engine/docs/regions Cloud Storage You should run your AI Platform job in the same region as the Cloud Storage bucket that you're using to read and write data for the job. You should use the Standard Storage class for any Cloud Storage buckets that you're using to read and write data for your AI Platform job. EDIT 3: ----------- I don't think you can set a region for colab, so I am not sure you can make egress free. ----------