Hey Marcel, While I can't authoritatively comment on why the price structure is the way it is, as a humble Community Support team member, I *can *attempt to provide some assistance if you'd like to discuss some issues related to this situation. I'm curious what it is about your app which has it using Datastore on the order of TB's of storage? I'd love to see if we can determine whether there might be a more efficient way to store the data which is currently going into Datastore. Feel free to reply with a description of your data and requirements and perhaps I can help guide a migration to a cheaper service for your needs.
Cheeers, Nick Cloud Platform Community Support On Monday, April 4, 2016 at 11:42:22 AM UTC-4, Marcel Manz wrote: > > Hello > > We're glad to see that Google announced a reduced Datastore pricing, > starting July 1st 2016: > > > https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/03/Google-Cloud-Datastore-simplifies-pricing-cuts-cost-dramatically-for-most-use-cases.html > > Finally the costs are entity based, regardless of amount of properties and > indexes involved. Big Kudos also on the newly introduced 'Entity deletes' > pricing, to finally enable us to delete / offload entities no longer used, > an operation which after years of operation was becoming for many use cases > too expensive. > > Unfortunately Google decided to keep the pricing per Stored GB at $0.18 > month, which still means $180 monthly per TB stored. We're having a bit of > concern seeing no cost reduction on this part, especially as announcements > on BigQuery side are made where 'historical data storage' now costs as less > as $0.01 per month, 18x cheaper than DataStore, with no performance > reduction: > > > https://cloud.google.com/blog/big-data/2016/03/google-bigquery-cuts-historical-data-storage-cost-in-half-and-accelerates-many-queries-by-10x > > https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/pricing#long-term-storage > > Can Google please comment on what justifies a 9 to 18 times higher storage > pricing on Datastore compared to BigQuery? I assume both systems are highly > distributed and make use of similar storage layers on Google side. How come > BigQuery became so cheap, while Datastore Storage is still incredibly > expensive? Not to mention that loading operations are even free on BigQuery > side. > > We would love to store a massive amount of data in our App Engine > Datastore, but at a price of $180 per Terabyte we will be forced to offload > data from Datastore to some cheaper storage system for long-term retrieval. > > A reduction of Datastore Storage Pricing would be highly appreciated. > > Best regards, > Marcel > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-appengine/9b11830c-bd6e-46b9-8bb5-de00e587d684%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
