Customers will soon be expected to pay for data replication and network topology, which are currently offered as free services.
Google Cloud has informed customers it will be hiking up the prices for some of its infrastructure products from October 1. Google Cloud infrastructure VP and GM Sachin Gupta said the changes reflect the cloud infrastructure investments the company has made over recent years. «They are also designed to better align with how other leading cloud providers charge for similar products, so customers can more easily compare services between leading cloud providers,» Gupta said in a blog post. He added the changes would give customers «more choice in how they pay for what they use alongside new, flexible SKUs with new product options and capabilities». Some of the specific changes will include introducing fees for data replication, as well as network egress fees for reading data in a cloud storage bucket located in a multi-region from a Google Cloud service on the same continent.
