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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. 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/d5f8ed2a-500c-41e3-8a17-15100e3399ee%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
