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The Google Storage pricing of $0.026/GB (or $0.020/GB for reduced durability) made my jaw drop. I spend over $6k/month on Amazon S3, and this pricing from Goog

The Google Storage pricing of $0.026/GB (or $0.020/GB for reduced durability) made my jaw drop. I spend over $6k/month on Amazon S3, and this pricing from Google has me flabbergasted. Our architecture just uses S3 as a pluggable commodity, so a few hours of coding is going to result in a new $4000/month in savings from this announcement. Wow! Edit: misplaced decimal!

voellm 13y ago
The new price sheets are below. It's 0.026/GB and 0.020/GB. Let your jaw drop more :) GCS pricing - https://developers.google.com/storage/pricing https://developers.google.com/storage/pricing GCE pricing - https://developers.google.com/compute/pricing https://developers.google.com/compute/pricing
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dragonwriter 13y ago
Your prices are off by an order of magnitude (correct prices are $0.026/GB and $0.020/GB), and the latter is "Durable Reduced Availability" [1] not "Reduced Durability". It is availability, not durability, that is reduced. [1] https://developers.google.com/storage/docs/durable-reduced-availability https://developers.google.com/storage/docs/durable-reduced-a...
darkarmani 13y ago
As long as you don't need to use the external network with that data. The network costs dominate the price if you need to serve up any of that data.
- rsync 13y ago
  Yes, what is that price ? That is, what does 1 GB cost to upload and then store for one month ?
  - netcraft 13y ago
    https://cloud.google.com/products/cloud-storage/#pricing https://cloud.google.com/products/cloud-storage/#pricing Almost all of these services have ingress free, its egress that costs.
- blantonl 13y ago
  In our case, the vast majority of the data is not ever served up and is removed via lifecycle rules. However, just the fact that we have the data serves a number of our customer's use cases.
_delirium 13y ago
That's a part that also stuck out to me. With that kind of price, "online" storage is approaching what was previously only available in Amazon Glacier "cold storage" pricing. When Glacier launched, it was about a 10x difference between online object stores ($0.10/GB) and Glacier ($0.01/GB). Since last year it's been down to a 7-8x difference, and now it's down all the way to a 2x difference. Imo, that makes the number of use-cases where it's worth dealing with Glacier's retrieval model smaller than previously (effectively only those where you have a truly huge amount of data, such that the remaining $0.01/GB price differential adds up to meaningful money).
ww520 13y ago
Outbound bandwidth is still expensive.
- gglanzani 13y ago
  Not as expensive as Glacier and its intricate retrieval model.

voellm 13y ago

The new price sheets are below. It's 0.026/GB and 0.020/GB. Let your jaw drop more :) GCS pricing - https://developers.google.com/storage/pricing https://developers.google.com/storage/pricing GCE pricing - https://developers.google.com/compute/pricing https://developers.google.com/compute/pricing

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dragonwriter 13y ago

Your prices are off by an order of magnitude (correct prices are $0.026/GB and $0.020/GB), and the latter is "Durable Reduced Availability" [1] not "Reduced Durability". It is availability, not durability, that is reduced. [1] https://developers.google.com/storage/docs/durable-reduced-availability https://developers.google.com/storage/docs/durable-reduced-a...

darkarmani 13y ago

As long as you don't need to use the external network with that data. The network costs dominate the price if you need to serve up any of that data.

rsync 13y ago
Yes, what is that price ? That is, what does 1 GB cost to upload and then store for one month ?
- netcraft 13y ago
  https://cloud.google.com/products/cloud-storage/#pricing https://cloud.google.com/products/cloud-storage/#pricing Almost all of these services have ingress free, its egress that costs.
blantonl 13y ago
In our case, the vast majority of the data is not ever served up and is removed via lifecycle rules. However, just the fact that we have the data serves a number of our customer's use cases.

_delirium 13y ago

That's a part that also stuck out to me. With that kind of price, "online" storage is approaching what was previously only available in Amazon Glacier "cold storage" pricing. When Glacier launched, it was about a 10x difference between online object stores ($0.10/GB) and Glacier ($0.01/GB). Since last year it's been down to a 7-8x difference, and now it's down all the way to a 2x difference. Imo, that makes the number of use-cases where it's worth dealing with Glacier's retrieval model smaller than previously (effectively only those where you have a truly huge amount of data, such that the remaining $0.01/GB price differential adds up to meaningful money).

ww520 13y ago

Outbound bandwidth is still expensive.

gglanzani 13y ago
Not as expensive as Glacier and its intricate retrieval model.