At an event in London today #Google announced a couple of updates to its cloud storage services. The most important of these is the launch of #Coldline, a new cold storage service for archival data, but the company also announced its new Regional storage service and the rebranding of its Standard storage under the “Multi-Region” moniker. If you know your Google Cloud Storage, the launch of a new cold storage service may surprise you. With #Nearline, Google already offers a very affordable service for data archiving and disaster recovery, after all. When #Nearline first launched, it was very similar to #AmazonGlacier in that you would get a very cheap storage service but you had to pay for that with increased latency. When Nearline came out of beta earlier this year, though, it also became much faster. Instead of three to five seconds of latency, access to data was now real-time. Coldline basically fills the gap that the improved Nearline service left after it came out of beta. Coldline storage will only cost $0.007 per gigabyte per month (and $0.05 per gigabyte retrieved). Nearline costs $0.01 per month. That may not look like a huge difference, but those numbers quickly add up if you are storing massive amounts of data. As a Google spokesperson told me, Coldline latency will be as low as access to the company’s other storage classes. “Building off the positive response from Nearline’s low-latency, this was an important design aspect for Coldline,” the spokesperson told me. Coldline is now also included in Google’s Switch and Save program, which offers enterprises that move their data to the Google Cloud up to 100 petabyte of free storage for a couple of months. With this update, Google is also now re-branding its current “standard” storage service for fast, highly available data access as “multi-regional,” and adding a lower-priced “regional” tier to this, as well.
https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/20/googles-cloud-platform-gets-new-a-cold-storage-service/
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