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•Created by TheDevFreak on 7/27/2024 in #general-help
GCP Storage - Archival and CDN Interconnect egress pricing.
GCP's archival storage is a decent price for some stuff I'd like to store at $0.0012/GB/month. There are files I don't actually expect to need to retrieve (other backups in place first) but if it came to it I'd do it.
In this example I will be storing 1400GB, and I am in Europe (UK).
Intended GCP Storage Region: Belgium(europe-west1) or Netherlands(europe-west4)
GCP Charge $0.05/GB for retrieval from archival storage: $70
GCP Charge $0.11/GB for network egress to "worldwide destinations": $154
Total Cost: $224
Source: https://cloud.google.com/storage/pricing
Google, however, have a "CDN Interconnect" program which is linked up with CF's bandwdith alliance as far as I can tell here: https://cloud.google.com/network-connectivity/docs/cdn-interconnect
If your CDN provider is already part of the program, you don't have to do anything. Traffic from supported Google Cloud locations to your CDN provider automatically takes advantage of the direct connection and reduced pricing.In this case they note EU egress should be $0.05/GB so my total would drop to around $140. Basically my question is; should setting up something with CF Transform rules, like Backblaze's guide for "Free image hosting" (https://www.backblaze.com/blog/free-image-hosting-with-cloudflare-transform-rules-and-backblaze-b2/) result in this halving of total egress cost?
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