Why GAE traffic is so expensive?

[Андрей Апанасик]

On Digital Ocean I can pay 10$ / month with 2TBTransfer and 0.02$ per GB over it.

But in https://cloud.google.com/compute/ 0.15$ per GB with free 1GB/day.


So with 10$ on Digital Ocean I took 2 TB. On GAC for 2TB i should pay almost 300$. Why traffic in GAE/Compute Engine so expensive?

[Rafael]

I'm not sure, but the concept behind is that managed solutions include their price into traffic, which means how successful your site is.

To cut costs, I would highly recommend serving any static content with a CDN, which is cheaper and probably better.

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[Андрей Апанасик]

In my game there is a lot traffic between Clients and Server application (real-time game). So, it's not possible to use CDN in this case.

пятница, 27 февраля 2015 г., 19:33:03 UTC+3 пользователь Rafael Sanches написал:

[Rafael]

Then there's nothing you can do to decrease bandwidth traffic.

Have you tried all the optimizations, like compression?

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[Jeff Schnitzer]

Looking at the pricing on that GCE page, it looks like GCE is $0.15 only to China and Australia in volume. For most destinations it's $0.08 per GB in volume.

This makes it about on par (actually slightly cheaper) with AWS for 10-40 TB, although AWS publishes several more pricing tiers if you go up from there. It's possible that GCE might have unpublished tiers, I"m guessing at that if you have a lot of volume you are already talking to a Google rep.

Why is it more expensive than Digital Ocean? I'm guessing (really, just guessing) that a lot of Google traffic flows over Google's backbone, whereas most DO traffic flows over public networks as soon as it leaves the building. It would be wise to check latency and reliability of the traffic before coming to a final conclusion about value.

P.S. if you do run some tests, please post the results here - we'd love to know!

Jeff

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[Luna Duclos]

I've ran tests on the connection speeds between EU, US and Asia Google datacenters. I can confirm that traffic typically goes to the closest Google data-center (from the perspective of the client) and then flows through Google's own infrastructure. 

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