New storage classes for Google Cloud Storage
I think there is really no doubt that the storage prices itself ( for all types) are pretty amazing. But let&#x27;s face it: traffic costs are the huge elephant in the room. By charging 12ct and more per GB, the traffic costs easily become your biggest expense, and make the storage price reduction from 2.6 to 2ct per GB almost forgetable.<p>For me this is in no way acceptable and it seems to be a vicious attempt to sneak in some extra profit without having the customer noticing this upfront. Shure, these harsh words seam like a big exaggeration, but I literally never ever hear or read something about traffic costs in Googles fancy blog posts, and I would make the assumption that only a fraction of the HN community is aware of this fact. 120 bucks for a sloppy TB of traffic is just way too high.