Upcoming price increases for Cloud Storage

If you don't need all the cloud stuff - Hetzner has also storage server i.e. SX134 with 10x16TB for 250€/month. For 50€/month you can order a 10Gbit upgrade and after 20TB free traffic it's 1€/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.

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.

Aren&#x27;t storage drives and networking costs getting cheaper?<p>Are rising prices like this a result of the market being an oligopoly?

Cloud pricing is insane, we are handling around 3 billion dynamic requests a month and serving 100+ TBs of static content a month for a few hundred euros, all rented&#x2F;dedicated servers, with zero problems. So we would pay like 10-100x times more in the cloud for the same hardware and traffic.

Latin America egress is going from one cent to fourteen cents? Is that a typo?

Network egress doubling from 0.01 to 0.02? Seems a bit much.

Hot on the heels of CloudFlare raising prices 25% (and offering an annual plan to drop prices back down). <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=33795808" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=33795808</a> <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.cloudflare.com&#x2F;adjusting-pricing-introducing-annual-plans-and-accelerating-innovation&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.cloudflare.com&#x2F;adjusting-pricing-introducing-an...</a>

This is why you should manage your own data storage if possible.

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.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sia.tech&#x2F;sia.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sia.tech&#x2F;sia.pdf</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;filecoin-project&#x2F;filecoin-docs&#x2F;blob&#x2F;main&#x2F;content&#x2F;en&#x2F;about-filecoin&#x2F;what-is-filecoin&#x2F;index.md" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;filecoin-project&#x2F;filecoin-docs&#x2F;blob&#x2F;main&#x2F;...</a>

Best to Checkout alternatives e.g. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;text-generator.io" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;text-generator.io</a> does text to speech over 8x cheaper which is crazy, cloud storage costs going up a lot but compute costs have always been high esp for managed services&#x2F;ml so shop around and on a code level, ideally use a wrapper around your Cloud usage to make switching easier

I actually think this is the sign of GCP growing up, and trying to become a profitable business. Long gone are the days where pricing was set by a PM throwing shit against the wall, with little attention paid to cost structure or margins (who remembers free GKE clusters?)

I think this is old news. See the linked faq <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cloud.google.com&#x2F;infrastructure&#x2F;services-updates" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cloud.google.com&#x2F;infrastructure&#x2F;services-updates</a>

I know people hate oracle, and its features and polish is much lower than AWS. But you should check out oracle Cloud pricing, it&#x27;s really good. And its free tier is absurdly good.

This is expected. First they offer multi year free usage contracts. Bring customers onboard and then raise prices because they were a loss leader.

Costs go down and prices go up?

raising prices by 50% on a steadily depreciating asset