GCE pricing is great but GCS is not. It is much more expensive than S3 or cloudfront (2.5x - 1.3x) when you consider per request costs. I have brought this up a couple of times on HN to Google cloud employees but nothing has changed.<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10442654" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10442654</a>
2. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10187600" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10187600</a><p>Other problem areas for GCS compared to S3&#x2F;Cloudfront<p>1. SSL support for custom domains in GCS is lacking.
2. Also SSL does not work for domain-named bucket when using  &lt;bucket&gt;.storage.googleapis.com&#x2F;&lt;object&gt; form. You can only use <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;storage.googleapis.com&#x2F;&lt;bucket&gt;&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;storage.googleapis.com&#x2F;&lt;bucket&gt;&#x2F;</a> 
 This makes using SSL for a static site hosted in SSL very difficult because you can&#x27;t use relative URLs. Cloudfront has solved it by using URLs of the form http(s):&#x2F;&#x2F;xxxxxxx.cloudfront.net&#x2F;&lt;object&gt;