Oddly enough, I found out about this restriction just yesterday. I wanted to play around with Google's ngram dataset. Amazon hosts it for free in S3 making it

Oddly enough, I found out about this restriction just yesterday. I wanted to play around with Google's ngram dataset. Amazon hosts it for free in S3 making it a no brainer to run in EC2 or EMR. Google doesn't have it available in Google Cloud Storage and I would burn a ton of bandwidth and time just to get it there. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11990839/is-there-a-way-to-upload-to-cloudstorage-from-a-url http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11990839/is-there-a-way-t... This makes it too difficult to kick the tires on BigQuery IMO. A file that will upload in a reasonable amount of time is more or less a toy dataset and if it's big enough to be a valid test, you will probably spend days trying to get it uploaded.