Can you deploy and host websites like Microsoft Azure on this?
Google Announces Massive Price Drops for Cloud Computing Services, Storage
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#32For anyone planning to use google cloud storage as an s3/cloudfront alternative to host public content, pay close attention to request pricing. Retrieving an object through its HTTP url is considered a class B XML request type by Google Cloud Storage. That is 1.3x - 2.5x times more expensive than cloudfront and s3 respectively.
I don't understand why people expose files they expect to receive significant traffic on public buckets, instead of using a caching reverse proxy from somewhere with cheaper data transfer rates.
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#33My startup is probably going to use Google storage at this point. We are hosting video that only gets accessed a couple times, but needs to be available for 1 year, so the reduced storage cost is going to be big for us.
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#34Nice to see support for both their free git private repo's and github.
There are probably use cases of just using free Google private repo's that might take some business away from github.
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#35The 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!
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#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
Moore's law doesn't say shit about storage.
>Moore's law doesn't say shit about storage. Yes, the cost progression of storage is expressed by Kryder's law, and is actually faster than moore's law. (well, in terms of storage space, not storage speed.) Of course, both are observations and not true laws; things will get interesting if/when the capital and power required per unit compute (or per unit ram or storage) stops dropping. But, my point is that in the pas…
Check out Kryder's Law for Storage:
Re: Google Announces Massive Price Drops for Cloud Computing Services, Storage
#37For anyone planning to use google cloud storage as an s3/cloudfront alternative to host public content, pay close attention to request pricing. Retrieving an object through its HTTP url is considered a class B XML request type by Google Cloud Storage. That is 1.3x - 2.5x times more expensive than cloudfront and s3 respectively.
I don't understand why people expose files they expect to receive significant traffic on public buckets, instead of using a caching reverse proxy from somewhere with cheaper data transfer rates.
That's another point of failure. One of the use cases of cloud storage is serving static assets. "a developer could store and host media and other static assets for a web game in Google Cloud Storage". https://developers.google.com/storage/docs/faq#services
Due to their request pricing, serving static assets is significantly costlier than cloudfront since storage costs tend to be minimal
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#38This should drive Azure pricing down as well which is good for those of us using it!
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
How does losing > $100e6 per year result in "amassing a big war chest"?
Raising a $250MM IPO is amassing a war chest. If that becomes harder, they become less competitive.
They're not competitive right now, from the sounds of it - they're losing a lot of money, very fast.
Re: Google Announces Massive Price Drops for Cloud Computing Services, Storage
#40The 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!
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 GCE pricing - https://developers.google.com/compute/pricing