Google raises cloud storage transfer fees

Grazed from ITNews. Author: Juha Searinen.

Google will start charging for data transfers between regions and continents from July this year, bucking a recent trend that has seen cloud storage providers slash their pricing. Starting July 15, data transferred between buckets (the basic containers that hold all customer data) located on the same continent but in different regions will cost US$0.01 per gigabyte.

Buckets located in different continents will also be subject to data egress rates from July. Customers in Australian Google Cloud Storage regions will pay substantially higher egress rates compared to their American, Asian and European counterparts: a monthly volume of up to one terabyte costs US$0.19/GB (A$0.24) in Australia, but only US$0.12/GB elsewhere…

Monthly data usage of between one and ten terabytes costs US$0.18/GB and for over 10TB, US$0.15/GB for Australian regions…

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