Google Cloud: Pricing Changes Are on the Horizon

A couple notable things are happening at Google Cloud.

First, reports abound this week that the world’s third-largest public cloud provider is about to get a whole lot pricier. 

In a March 14 blog, Sachin Gupta, vice president and general manager at Google Cloud Infrastructure said the following will take place on Oct. 1:

•        Cloud storage pricing changes for data mobility, including replication of data written to a dual- or multi-region storage bucket, and inter-region data access.

•        Introduction of a new lower-cost archive snapshot option for Persistent Disk, so compliance/archiving use cases are charged less than compute-intensive DevOps workloads.

•        New outbound data processing pricing for Cloud Load Balancing, “in line with other leading cloud providers.”

•        New pricing for network topology, which will include performance dashboard within the network intelligence center at no extra charge.

Gupta said the changes come after years of Google Cloud’s “significant investments” in infrastructure products.

What will the pricing impact be? Find out on the next slide.