[HN Gopher] Upcoming pricing changes (increases) for Cloud Storage ___________________________________________________________________ Upcoming pricing changes (increases) for Cloud Storage Author : gotmedium Score : 52 points Date : 2022-12-02 20:25 UTC (2 hours ago) (HTM) web link (cloud.google.com) (TXT) w3m dump (cloud.google.com) | foota wrote: | I think this is old news. See the linked faq | https://cloud.google.com/infrastructure/services-updates | alphabettsy wrote: | Costs go down and prices go up? | belltaco wrote: | Network egress doubling from 0.01 to 0.02? Seems a bit much. | FredPret wrote: | Egress is why I own a back end server for my projects rather | than rent one from AWS/GCP. Unfortunately you still need at | least a small instance to host a website. | tomr75 wrote: | hetzner/OVH? | Volundr wrote: | Not OP, but at a previous company we coloed our servers we | owned in a local data center. It's surprisingly affordable. | zxspectrum1982 wrote: | It's worse in Asia (x8), Oceania (x8) and Latin America (x14). | Wow. | | Asia $0.01/GB => $0.08/GB Oceania $0.01/GB => $0.08/GB Latin | America $0.01/GB => $0.14/GB | metalspot wrote: | raising prices by 50% on a steadily depreciating asset | qwertyuiop_ wrote: | This is expected. First they offer multi year free usage | contracts. Bring customers onboard and then raise prices because | they were a loss leader. | cl0ckt0wer wrote: | Latin America egress is going from one cent to fourteen cents? Is | that a typo? | andirk wrote: | Curious if issues of deeply centralized (think: monopoly) storage | services give airt time for the several decentralized storage | options such as Sia [0], File [1], and tried and true torrenting. | | [0] https://sia.tech/sia.pdf | | [1] https://github.com/filecoin-project/filecoin- | docs/blob/main/... | jmugan wrote: | People say you should manage your own data. That's great until | you have to demonstrate compliance with security regulations. If | I'm a big cloud provider, the more regulations and requirements | there are the better it is for my business. | ilyt wrote: | If you mom and pops shop sure, but if you have like... enough | people to cover for 24/7, you have enough people for that. | | Managing compliance within the app itself is much more work to | that. | dilyevsky wrote: | If you run petabyte size storage clusters, engineering for | compliance should still be small fraction of dollars saved | compared to what you'd be paying in cloud (even with old | pricing). | acchow wrote: | Aren't storage drives and networking costs getting cheaper? | | Are rising prices like this a result of the market being an | oligopoly? | acdha wrote: | My guess is that it's more along the lines of GCP being | expected to be profitable. They're a distant #3, possibly #4 in | the market so it seems unlikely that they're trying to exploit | market position when that'll just give customers another reason | to switch to AWS. | ohashi wrote: | Who/what order do you have? | | I have to imagine AWS is first. Azure? Who is maybe third | above them? Oracle? Alicloud? | acdha wrote: | https://canalys.com/newsroom/global-cloud-services-Q1-2022 | has it has AWS at 33%, Azure at 21%, and GCP at 8%. Oracle | and AliCloud are the two I'd expect to try for that #3 | spot, especially since that could be a single acquisition | if e.g. IBM is interested in selling. | | The potential confound here is how you measure it, of | course: Microsoft gets a big jump from all of the people | using Office 365, Google has G-Suite, etc. but I don't | think there's any world in which Google has enough leverage | to increase pricing if they don't have to. | fnordpiglet wrote: | Doesn't like Xbox subscriptions and other unrelated | malarkey factor into azure too? If you took out all the | income statement stuffing I'll bet you aws is in the 80% | range. | makestuff wrote: | AWS 34%, Azure 21%, GCP 11%, Alibaba 5% | | https://www.statista.com/chart/18819/worldwide-market- | share-... | idunno246 wrote: | in the last round of storage price increases, the biggest | change for us was reading multi-region storage, like five or | six figures a month increase. 'just rearchitect your | application.' it seemed to really be a punishment(sin tax if | you will) on a behavior they want people not to do. or align | revenue with costs i guess. it really sucks working with a | partner that thinks punitive actions are ok. | | the whole but youre on a contract so it doesnt apply yet is | such bs, it just delays the pain, and we lost track of the many | places we saw price increases. | chrismeller wrote: | I was thinking it's just relative to energy prices keeping all | this infrastructure plugged in, but that only makes sense | (kinda) for storage. | jqpabc123 wrote: | This is why you should manage your own data storage if possible. | nisa wrote: | If you don't need all the cloud stuff - Hetzner has also storage | server i.e. SX134 with 10x16TB for 250EUR/month for 50EUR/month | can order a 10Gbit upgrade and after 20TB traffic it's 1EUR/TB | egress. It's an ordner of magnitude cheaper. Of course that's | because you are responsible for checking the disks, setting | everything up and keeping it up to date - but at least for the | problems we have where I work there is absolutely no need to use | Google or any other cloud and Hetzner is more than good enough. | rektide wrote: | Hot on the heels of CloudFlare raising prices 25% (and offering | an annual plan to drop prices back down). | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33795808 | https://blog.cloudflare.com/adjusting-pricing-introducing-an... | tebbers wrote: | Cloudflare is ludicrously good value for money, even on the $25 | a month plan. Even on the free plan you get a huge amount for | $0. | dhdgrygev wrote: | However, using Cloudflare R2 to distribute content is still | thousands of times cheaper than GCP. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-12-02 23:00 UTC)