Re:Google Cloud Storage Nearline graduates to general availa...
by dragonwriter on Thursday July 23, 2015 @11:17AM
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The fact that the offer at its minimum level (which is only free for 1 month, its an "up to 6 months" free deal) requires a commitment to maintain at least 1PB in the system for 12 months (which means you are on the hook for paying for it for the non-free portion of that commitment period), is probably a constraint on sending in junk data just for fun.
As is the fact that you have to migrate the data from non-Google servers -- either your own or some other cloud provider -- to qualify, since you're going to pay for the sending the data, junk or otherwise, you are dumping into it.
As is the fact that you have to migrate the data from non-Google servers -- either your own or some other cloud provider -- to qualify, since you're going to pay for the sending the data, junk or otherwise, you are dumping into it.