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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 11 2019, @10:00PM (2 children)
"Cold Storage" "Cloud"
I don't understand. Is this part of the double think programming?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 12 2019, @02:48PM
In this scenario "cloud" is the delivery mechanism which your data travels to be reviewed by Google for ad worthiness, leaked to bad actors, and then lost when Google pulls the plug on this cold storage.
(Score: 2) by Hyperturtle on Friday April 12 2019, @03:29PM
I'll take a shot at the translation:
"Give them all your backups, and they will hold it for ransom for you until you pay up, cutting off access when they detect you are about to need it."
Pricing will start really cheap to get people locked in then the rates will skyrocket because the cloud constantly rains your private data on marketer's parades, which makes the bullshit they spread around grow the shit that gets people high enough to keep paying for the service while complaining that Google cancels products too quickly, and they want their privacy violated for longer non-negotiatible terms than just a few years with only arbitration provided by a company within Alphabet available to address only complaints unrelated to your actual issues.
I swear it's like that woody allen skit with the old ladies when it comes to complaining about google's services. "it violated me repeatedly and the amount of space offered was too small, and they keep changing around the terms and conditions that you need a laywer to understand it". "And so expensive, too! Shall we set up auto-pay or go month-to-month?"