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While it isn’t exactly a massive upgrade, given that free accounts get allocated 15GB of storage when opening a Gmail account it’s still a neat increase for those on the lowest Google Drive paid tier. Within the thread, other commenters have confirmed that they too have also received confirmation that their own Google Drive plan has been upgraded free of charge.

That means you’ll have the same space as before, without paying anything! Good news, the 20 GB of storage associated with your Google Drive paid plan will be free moving forward! This is because your current Google Drive paid plan of 20 GB for $5/year has been discontinued in favor of other offers.
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Initially posted on Reddit by user /u/HeiuDo (via Android Police), the user posted an image that confirmed that the upgraded storage is now part of their ‘free’ Google Drive plan. Google has since told users that subscribers will now have the extended storage grandfathered to their existing accounts completely free of charge. That’s one area where you can maybe raise prices without having to fear an exodus of customers.ĭespite the flowery language in the announcement, Google is clearly aware of the impact these changes will have.The removal of the Google Drive $5 yearly subscription plan giving 20GB of cloud storage has some benefits for users already subscribed to the lowest tier of the service. There’s a reason people talk about data gravity. The marketing teams of the other leading cloud providers are probably having a field day with this announcement, but moving large amounts of data is hard. Customers can also more easily compare services between leading cloud providers,” the company wrote in an FAQ today. With our pay-as-you-go pricing structure, customers have the ability to better match costs to the services they use. “Google Cloud offers innovative solutions to transform businesses, priced in a customer-focused and consistent way. Ticketmaster would be proud, but Google says this will align its pricing with other leading cloud providers. Load balancing, too, will see a price increase now that Google applies an “outbound data processing charge” of $0.008 to $0.012, depending on the region.

And while reading data in a Cloud Storage bucket located in a multi-region from a service in a region on the same continent was previously free, it’ll now be priced just like any other data movement between Google Cloud locations on the same continent. Operations pricing for Google Cloud’s Coldline Storage Class A will double from $0.10 per 10,000 operations to $0.20.

The company is also raising its “Always Free Internet” egress from 1 GB per month to 100 GB per month.īut a number of core storage features, like multi-region Nearline storage, will see increases of 50%.
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It’s not all bad news, with some archive storage at rest in Google’s U.S., Europe and Asia regions decreasing in price, and there’s a new lower-cost Persistent Disk archive snapshot option, too. These increases, which Google announced under the guise of wanting to provide “more flexible pricing models and options,” will go into effect on October 1, 2022.

Renting cloud infrastructure typically gets cheaper over time, but Google Cloud is bucking this trend today with significant price increases across a number of core services.
