We use Google Cloud Platform, and their Compute Engine pricing is phenomenal compared to AWS. Google seems to be aiming for competitive pricing in their cloud offerings.<p>However, it seems to me that their Cloud Storage offering is substantially more expensive compared to AWS's S3 offering. Why is this? Why is GCP not pricing this service competitively?<p>Here are the monthly price calculators that show S3 is cheaper than GCS - hopefully I didn't type anything in wrong. I used 1 TB of storage, 10 million get operations and 10 million post operations, and 200 GB egress.<p>S3 monthly: $102.63<p>GCS monthly: $160.62 (about 56.5% more expensive)<p>GCS: https://cloud.google.com/products/calculator/#id=cddb4e9a-f2e0-4b9e-8644-8e512bf77ca5<p>S3: https://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html#r=IAD&s=S3&key=calc-684497CE-C3B9-47C3-85DF-247D9149FABA
* note I am a Googler.<p>Simply put it appears operations are more expensive on Google than Amazon.<p>I'll break out the numbers below.<p>Storage<p>Google 1000gb x $0.026 = $26
Amazon 1000gb x $0.030 = $30<p>Egress:
Google 200gb x $0.12 = $24
Amazon 199gb x $0.90 = $17.91<p>Get Operations:
Google 10m / 10k × $0.010 = $10
Amazon 10m / 10k × $0.004 = $4<p>Put Operations:
Google 10m / 10k x $0.100 = $100
Amazon 10m / 1k x $0.005 = $50<p>After breaking down the numbers you see that operations are more expensive. Google is a bit less expensive for data at rest and Amazon is a bit less expensive on egress. I'll chat with some people at Google to see if there is anything we can do.