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GCS can be used instead of HDFS, Dataproc is shipped with GCS connector installed ( https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/bigdata-interop )

SLAs on availability/durability & guaranteed throughput..

It's a bit apples to oranges comparison. Dropbox is a consumer product, like Google Drive. Nearline is targeted to app developers and enterprises

You can store 1 Pb and get 4000 MB/s

The same egress and data transfer charges as for Google Cloud Storage Standard / DRA. Can transfer the data from Standard to Nearline bucket for free until Jun, 11 - https://cloud.…

from the documentation: "You should expect 4 MB/s of throughput per TB of data stored as Nearline Storage. This throughput scales linearly with increased storage consumption."