Google announced at Google I/O that Google storage is now available to all developers. Previously this was only available on an invite only basis. For the average consumer this might not mean much, but this service is similar to Amazon S3 and with it being open to all developers we could soon see third party applications like JungleDisk or others taking advantage of Google Storage as a cloud backup service.
They are currently offering 5gb of space for free and prices for more storage are as follows:
Bucket Location: US
- Storage: $0.17/GB/Month
- PUT, POST, LIST Requests: $0.01 per 1,000 Requests
- GET, HEAD requests: $0.01 per 10,000
- Upload data: $0.10/GB
- Download data:
- $0.15 to Americas, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa
- $0.30 to Asia-Pacific
Bucket Location: EU
- Storage: $0.17/GB/Month
- PUT, POST, LIST Requests: $0.01 per 1,000 Requests
- GET, HEAD requests: $0.01 per 10,000
- Upload data: $0.10/GB
- Download data:
- $0.15 to Americas, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa
- $0.30 to Asia-Pacific
Could be only a matter of time before we see the third party applications for backing up to Google cloud storage.
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