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Except for the Glacier retrieval fees which can be insane if you choose to retrieve more than 0.17% of your stored data per day.

https://aws.amazon.com/glacier/faqs/#How_much_data_can_I_ret...

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But if you retrieve the same 1000 GB from Glacier in the same 3 days that Google takes you would pay a 98 dollar retrieval fee. And Amazon would charge 300 dollar less traffic cost ($ 0.09 vs $ 0.12 / GB for 1000 GB) so in the end Glacier is still 202 dollar cheaper AND allows you to retrieve the data much faster if you really have to at a certain price.

So Google looks cheaper/simpler, but the amazon model is actually quite good for disaster recovery where you may be in a situation where you "need it now at any cost"

Internet egress for 1000 GB is $120 for Google and $90 for Amazon, a difference of $30 not $300.

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