[HN Gopher] Upcoming pricing changes (increases) for Cloud Storage
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Upcoming pricing changes (increases) for Cloud Storage
Author : gotmedium
Score : 52 points
Date : 2022-12-02 20:25 UTC (2 hours ago)
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| 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.
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| 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
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| [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?
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| 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.
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