Introducing Google Cloud Storage Nearline
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Introducing Google Cloud Storage Nearline
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#21c/GB/mo for data stored, ~3 seconds response times (cf. tape/Glacier at multiple hours), 11 9s durability, same API as Google Cloud Storage online.
(edit: add /month)
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#4from 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."
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#5from 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."
There it is. Still, someone like 'cperciva could pool a lot of their customers' data together and offer high speeds even for small amounts of data.
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#6The 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.google.com/storage/pricing#network-regions
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#7So is this a blatant dig at Amazon's Glacier? "Fast performance... unlike competitors"
As they generally do tit for tat on price wars, it will be interesting to see what Amazon responds with.
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#8So how is this implemented? Spun-down disk drives?
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#9from 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."
There it is. Still, someone like 'cperciva could pool a lot of their customers' data together and offer high speeds even for small amounts of data.
http://xkcd.com/1494/
The unusual thing about this market is that by constantly improving the price point of their product but keeping their profit margins the same, AWS has forced every competitor in it to actually compete at the limits of their capability - so any scheme like this that got any serious traction would presumably be self-undermining. The economists will have considered all of the unused provided capacity in the model before they priced it. Sorry to be miserable ;)
Re: Introducing Google Cloud Storage Nearline
#10The detailed pricing is at https://cloud.google.com/storage/pricing#nearline-pricing
In short, if I'm understanding correctly:
$0.01 per GB per month storage
$0.01 per GB retrieval
Normal egress fees on top, so additional ~$0.10 per GB if you want to retrieve outside of Google Cloud.
Early deletion fee. Effectively just a minimum storage charge of 1 month.