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Google Cloud Introduces New Long-Term/Cold Storage Tier

posted by martyb on Thursday April 11 2019, @08:03PM   Printer-friendly
from the if-DHS-used-it,-would-it-be-"ICE-on-ice"? dept.

takyon writes:

Google debuts new Cloud Storage archive class for long-term data retention

Today at its annual Cloud Next conference in San Francisco, [Google] announced new storage tools, pricing, and products for customers of all sizes.

First on the agenda was a new archive class designed for long-term data retention that eliminates the need for a separate retrieval process, Google says, while providing "immediate" and low-latency access to content. Both access and management are performed via a familiar set of Google Cloud Storage APIs through which objects can be tiered down to save on costs, and data is redundantly stored geo-redundantly across multi-regional availability zones.

Pricing will start at $0.0012 per GB per month ($1.23 per TB per month) when it launches later this year. That's significantly cheaper than Microsoft's Azure Cool Blob Storage, which costs $0.002 per GB per month, and competitive with Amazon S3 Glacier, which is priced at $0.004 per GB per month.

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  • (Score: 2) by AnonTechie on Thursday April 11 2019, @08:58PM (3 children)

    by AnonTechie (2275) on Thursday April 11 2019, @08:58PM (#828257) Journal

    And, how long before Google shuts this service down ??

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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by fustakrakich on Thursday April 11 2019, @09:12PM (2 children)

    by fustakrakich (6150) on Thursday April 11 2019, @09:12PM (#828267) Journal

    Everybody's on the same page there. I was about to mock the headline for including Google and "long term" in the same sentence.

    Long term is Heinz Ketchup and *Body by Fisher [wikimedia.org]*

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    • (Score: 5, Funny) by bob_super on Thursday April 11 2019, @09:26PM (1 child)

      by bob_super (1357) on Thursday April 11 2019, @09:26PM (#828282)

      I was gonna make that joke too ... Then I remembered that Google shuts down projects and features, but can definitely be trusted never to lose your personal data.

      • (Score: 2) by fyngyrz on Friday April 12 2019, @04:53PM

        by fyngyrz (6567) on Friday April 12 2019, @04:53PM (#828666) Journal

        Then I remembered that Google shuts down projects and features, but can definitely be trusted never to lose your personal data.

        Yes! They have established multiple backups at nearly every advertising entity on the planet to ensure solid retention of our personal data.

        So concerned for us, Google is. :/

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