The doc says Uploads are free but that there may be costs associated with object uploads. I see that Coldline is much less expensive per op than Archive.
Any insight into this would be very helpful.
There are generally three costs associated with Google Cloud Storage:
- Data storage
- Data processing
- Network usage
This page provides a breakdown of how this works in more detail: https://cloud.google.com/storage/pricing
And you can see which operations classifier as which class of operations in this list here:
https://cloud.google.com/storage/pricing#operations-by-class
Hope that helps,
Alex
Alex, I appreciate your quick reply. I did see that doc, but I am not familiar with which API calls are used by my MSP360 backup software to send files/objects to Google. I suppose I should ask MSP360. I am guessing it is a Class A PUT that costs $0.10 per 1000 ops for Archive vs. $.02/ 1000 Class A calls for Coldline.
That sounds right to me, ultimately best would be to conduct a small test and evaluate how the tool is interacting with the storage and get some concrete data and extrapolate from there.