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Really enjoying this price and feature war between Amazon and Google. Now who wants to drop their egress pricing to be reasonable?

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Working on it! We released our new "Standard" networking tier last month and switched to src x dst pricing that saved some people ~10-20% depending on the src x dst pair.

Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud.

Are you ever going to be competitive with transit? I can buy gigabit from a number of providers for $400/month, which saturated the entire time is 330TB or $0.0013/GB. I can also see 10Gbps for $999, which is $0.00030/GB.

There are so many things I'd love to use Compute Engine for but storage is obscenely expensive for my needs and egress pricing makes it impossible to get data out after I send it in.

Although the difference isn't as big as you think: when you buy from an ISP, you typically pay for a router (and space/power to host it), a $250/mo cross-connect fee, two ports if you want reliability, and you have a >2x unit price increase just from running a port at <50% average utilization. But yeah, it's still cheaper if you have >1Gbps of traffic.

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