Gcloud storage: Faster data transfers for Cloud Storage
From the article:<p>"The new gcloud storage CLI offers significant performance improvements over the existing gsutil ..."<p>It makes sense to see this comparison because 'gsutil' was relatively poor - we[1] made a decision to deprecate the 'gsutil' binary[2] in our environment in favor of rclone[3] because <i>rclone is better in every way</i>.<p>We made the same decision for 's3cmd'.<p>All of that to say:<p>The biggest question to ask about this is "how does it compare to rclone".  I <i>suspect</i> the answer is that authentication and token handling (and things like that) are much better as rclone has a pretty clunky auth workflow for google cloud resources.  That is <i>not</i> the case for Amazon resources which behave just as you'd expect them to, with regard to API tokens, and make it hard to justify using any tool other than rclone.<p>[1] rsync.net<p>[2] Yes, a binary - we "freeze" python into binary exe because we don't allow interpreters in our environment.<p>[3] <a href="https://rclone.org/" rel="nofollow">https://rclone.org/</a>