As boulos points out ingress is free -- the other question is how much you actually need to egress. Transfer within a GCP region is generally free as well, so unless you really need your giant result set in its raw form, you can potentially just leave it in GCP and do any analysis&#x2F;summarizing work you might otherwise have done externally within GCP.<p>Taking this to the extreme, you might even fire up a Windows VM so you could run some analysis or reporting tool there (say, Tableau), within GCP and then only need to egress the Dashboard or Report that it generated. You&#x27;d still <i>have</i> the raw data, but you would only be paying to store it. Especially if you&#x27;re only keeping it around for archival purposes you could put it in a Nearline bucket and really minimize your costs.<p>(note: I work on GCE)