Turn off SSL to Google cloud storage
You should keep SSL. When using OAuth2 (as GCS does), any request may include an http header (access_token) that you don't want third parties to see. Otherwise, hijacking your account would be extremely easy.
How would I go about turning off SSL when sending data to Google cloud storage?  I'm using their apiclient module.
The data that I'm putting to the cloud is already encrypted.  I'm also trying to put data from AWS to GCS in 512k sized blocks.  I'm seeing about 600ms+ in putting just one block.  I was thinking if I don't have to set up a secure connection then I can cut down that PUT time a little.
The code is server side code that lives on AWS and for some god awful reason my company wants to have two (S3 and GCS) as production storage regions.