Is it worth paying money for Google Cloud and Google?
I'm interested in running some code in Google Compute Engine (or App Engine) that will read data from Google Cloud Storage and write it to Google Drive.
From the Google pricing pages, it can be seen that accessing Google cloud services in the same region does not incur network transit costs (see https://cloud.google.com/storage/pricing ) but it remains unclear to me if Google Drive is cloud-based service in the same region or not.
Can anyone answer definitively (preferably with a link) if transferring data from Google Cloud Compute / App Engine to Google Drive is free?
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Transferring data from Google Cloud Storage to Google Drive using Google Compute Engine consists of two separate operations:
- Loading objects from GCS to GCE. As stated on the GCS page , going online for a Google service in the same region (GCE - Google Service) will be free. For example, downloading from the GCS bucket to the GCE VM in us-central1-a will be free. Loading from the GCS EU bucket to the GCE VM in us-central1-a will incur costs. The download from the regional GCS repository located in US-CENTRAL1 will be free for the virtual machine in us-central1-a. Loading from a regional GCS bucket located at US-CENTRAL1 to a VM at asia-east1-a will incur costs.
- Booting to disk from GCE. As mentioned on the GCE pricing page , going out of the virtual machine into Google products (drive explicitly listed as an example) is free.
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