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AWS S3 vs Google Cloud Storage: what the same workload costs

3 workloads, each described once and priced on both from the providers’ published list prices. Every figure is from a sample verdict, and every warning stays beside the option it belongs to.

Price your own workloadSee the 3 sample verdicts
Across the 3 samples
AWS S3 cost less than Google Cloud Storage
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How much more the dearer of the 2 cost, workload by workload
1% more to 2.1 times as much
Neither was the cheapest of the 5 providers priced on each workload. Each workload names who was.
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3 workloads, priced on both

Each bar is that provider’s cheapest option priced in full, over the whole period, in US dollars. The workload is the same on both sides; only the provider changes.

  1. Hot application storage

    • 50 TiB, growing 3% a month
    • Kept indefinitely
    • Over 3 years
    • AWSAWS S3 Standard in eu-west-2$197,928.99$62.56 per TiB-month all in · storage $24.13, everything else $38.43
    • Google CloudGoogle Standard, region in europe-west2$200,019.67$63.22 per TiB-month all in · storage $23.90, everything else $39.33

    AWS cost $2,090.68 less over 3 years. Google Cloud cost 1% more.

    Cheapest of the 31 options priced in fullWasabi Pay as you go in eu-west-1 $25,647.39, $8.11 per TiB-month all in

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  2. Backup with frequent change

    • 200 TiB, growing 1.5% a month
    • Kept 90 days
    • Over 5 years
    • AWSAWS S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval in eu-west-2$184,730.04$9.60 per TiB-month all in · storage $5.47, everything else $4.13
    • Google CloudGoogle Nearline, region in europe-west2$388,099.61$20.17 per TiB-month all in · storage $17.56, everything else $2.61

    AWS cost $203,369.57 less over 5 years. Google Cloud cost 2.1 times as much.

    Cheapest of the 34 options priced in fullAzure Cold LRS in uksouth $167,606.24, $8.71 per TiB-month all in

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  3. Long-term archive

    • 1,024 TiB, growing 0.5% a month
    • Kept 2,555 days, locked against deletion throughout
    • Over 10 years
    • AWSAWS S3 Glacier Deep Archive in eu-west-2$316,543.70$1,931.57 per PiB-month all in · storage $1,891.43, everything else $40.14
    • Google CloudGoogle Archive, region in europe-west2$447,147.92$2,728.52 per PiB-month all in · storage $2,659.67, everything else $68.85

    AWS cost $130,604.22 less over 10 years. Google Cloud cost 41% more.

    Cheapest of the 36 options priced in fullAzure Archive LRS in uksouth $315,138.42, $1,922.99 per PiB-month all in

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Before you decide

A price says nothing about how the data behaves. Every warning and note on both options is here, with the page it comes from, and none of them changes the order.

Hot application storage

AWSAWS S3 Standard in eu-west-2

Google CloudGoogle Standard, region in europe-west2

Backup with frequent change

AWSAWS S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval in eu-west-2

Google CloudGoogle Nearline, region in europe-west2

Long-term archive

Google CloudGoogle Archive, region in europe-west2

How these were priced

Priced at each provider’s current published list prices, in 1 region of each, named beside its figure. Estimates, not quotations.

  • Every price names its source

    Each figure comes from the provider’s own published price list, and the report says how old it was.

  • A missing charge is never zero

    An option that cannot be priced in full is marked Partial, and is not ranked.

  • Cost alone decides the order

    Storage, requests, retrieval, data out, and early deletion are all counted, and a warning never moves an option. The method in full

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