Is downloading an object from a bucket via public url from a Google instance charged?

[Valerios]

Hello,

I would like to upload images to a bucket, and use a google VM Instance to download the image / edit it on the fly and serve it.

The outgoing traffic from the VM is already paid, do I also have to calculate the bandwidth from google cloud storage to the VM? Or being in the same network is not paid? In the documentation I found "Accessing data in an EU bucket with an EU-WEST1 GKE instance. - Free" does the same also apply to Custom VM instances?

[wushawn]

The free  Network egress applies to “Accessing data in an EU bucket with the  Custom VM instances located in one EU region “ as “Data moves from a Cloud Storage bucket located in a multi-region to a different Google Cloud service located in a region, and both locations are on the same continent.”Custom VM instances is the GCP services, and located in the the EU region and within Europe continent.