Ask HN: Why is Google Cloud Storage 56.5% more expensive than AWS S3?

5 points

10 years ago

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.

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?

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.

S3 monthly: $102.63

GCS monthly: $160.62 (about 56.5% more expensive)

GCS: https://cloud.google.com/products/calculator/#id=cddb4e9a-f2e0-4b9e-8644-8e512bf77ca5

S3: https://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html#r=IAD&s=S3&key=calc-684497CE-C3B9-47C3-85DF-247D9149FABA

1 comment