I've ran tests on the connection speeds between EU, US and Asia Google datacenters. I can confirm that traffic typically goes to the closest Google data-center (from the perspective of the client) and then flows through Google's own infrastructure.
On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 6:25 PM, Jeff Schnitzer <[email protected]> wrote: > Looking at the pricing on that GCE page, it looks like GCE is $0.15 only > to China and Australia in volume. For most destinations it's $0.08 per GB > in volume. > > This makes it about on par (actually slightly cheaper) with AWS for 10-40 > TB, although AWS publishes several more pricing tiers if you go up from > there. It's possible that GCE might have unpublished tiers, I"m guessing at > that if you have a lot of volume you are already talking to a Google rep. > > Why is it more expensive than Digital Ocean? I'm guessing (really, just > guessing) that a lot of Google traffic flows over Google's backbone, > whereas most DO traffic flows over public networks as soon as it leaves the > building. It would be wise to check latency and reliability of the traffic > before coming to a final conclusion about value. > > P.S. if you do run some tests, please post the results here - we'd love to > know! > > Jeff > > > On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 3:05 PM, Андрей Апанасик <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> On Digital Ocean I can pay 10$ / month with 2TBTransfer and 0.02$ per GB >> over it. >> >> But in https://cloud.google.com/compute/ 0.15$ per GB with free 1GB/day. >> >> >> So with 10$ on Digital Ocean I took 2 TB. On GAC for 2TB i should pay >> almost 300$. Why traffic in GAE/Compute Engine so expensive? >> >> -- >> 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. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-appengine/768f5526-f505-474a-b564-e33b5cb2a48a%40googlegroups.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-appengine/768f5526-f505-474a-b564-e33b5cb2a48a%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- > 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. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-appengine/CADK-0ugWVcKrH0Uvf%2Biz7z2cbV%2BiSZ7enHhs%3DVRQMkmy-YWqQA%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-appengine/CADK-0ugWVcKrH0Uvf%2Biz7z2cbV%2BiSZ7enHhs%3DVRQMkmy-YWqQA%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-appengine/CAEJU2PdCXTN%2Boju8y_0BBFvjqv3abyfb2CNdLsKjO5S%3DozZc7A%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
