Google is adjusting its cloud infrastructure product and pricing structure in a move the company says is designed to give customers more choice in how they pay for what they use.
The update includes new product options and capabilities to help ensure better product fit for businesses using Google’s cloud across a wider array of workloads. Google says the updates are also designed to better align with how other leading cloud providers charge for similar products.
The changes in Google Cloud pricing will result in some pricing increases for some customers, depending on what they use and how they use it. Meanwhile, some new options could lower some customers’ bills, Google says. These new prices will go into effect on Oct. 1, so customers have some time to budget appropriately.
Google says cloud storage, networking, security and persistent disk are all impacted by the reshuffling of offerings and pricing.
In a blog, Sachin Gupta, vice president and general manager of Google Cloud Infrastructure, says the impact of pricing changes depends on use cases and usage.
“While some customers may see an increase in their bills, we’re also introducing new options for some services to better align with usage, which could lower some customers’ bills,” Gupta writes. “In fact, many customers will be able to adapt their portfolios and usage to decrease costs. We’re working directly with customers to help them understand which changes may impact them.”
For example, cloud storage will largely increase across the board, with increases ranging from 10% to 50%, depending upon the type of storage and region. However, archive storage pricing will decrease by as much as 44% in some regions. Google says it is introducing a “lower-cost archive snapshot option” planned for the second half of this year for Persistent Disk customers who have infrequent data access needs or are backing up data, which explains the Archive Storage decreases.
Google Cloud’s Operations pricing will also increase, with some storage classes seeing prices per 10,000 operations more than double.
The company will begin charging customers using Google’s load balancing product for outbound traffic data processing in addition to inbound, charging between $0.008 – $0.012 per GB, based on region.
The company will also turn on billing for Network Topology. Google released a pricing chart for this, with the company charging $0.15 for a Google Cloud customer that runs more than 20 connectivity tests per month.
Meanwhile, total computer engine virtual machine instance resource hours will be $.0011 per month, so an organization running 100 VM instances all day in a single month would cost $80.30.
Performance Dashboard will be included with that offering at no additional cost, Google says.
Google will also start charging for uptime check, for which it has added new capabilities and functionality, including private uptime check.
For a full breakdown on the new pricing, read this FAQ on the pricing adjustments.
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