You may have noticed that Google reduced the costs of the HRD: https://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com/2013/05/reducing-app-engine-datastore-pricing-by-up-to-25-percent.html
Still, deleting large amounts of data is simply too expensive. Once you have an application that hits that magical number of 1TB you have to take in mind that to store this data will now cost you $240 every month, $180 after the latest price reduction. If you're moving towards 2TB where you might be able to drop the first TB for archiving reasons, it is most likely still cheaper to drag that 1TB for another year along ($2160), than to pay delete write costs for moving that data off HRD. Eventually at some point you might just copy what is required to a new app, deleting the old application and leaving the cleanup charges with Google. >From my perspective Google should introduce a more economical entity delete cost. A fixed cost per entity delete, no matter on how many properties or indexes that entity has. That delete operation also wouldn't need to be instantaneous, it could run through some slow queue that is completing the delete in lets say anywhere between now and 7 days. If the application requires an immediate delete, from my perspective it's fine to pay for the current charges, but Google in return should introduce some cheaper way for batch-deleting large amounts of entity data. 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
