Google Unveils a New, Cheaper Networking Option For Cloud Customers: the Public Internet (geekwire.com)

Google Cloud Platform customers will have a new option when selecting the type of network used to deliver their traffic to their users: they can keep using Google's network, or they can save some money with the new option of using public transit networks. An anonymous reader shares a report: Google has long argued that one of the best reasons to use its public cloud service is the strength of its fiber network, developed and enhanced for more than a decade to support the global data centers powering its search engine. But there are some applications that don't require that level of performance, and so Google is now offering a cheaper networking service -- costing between 24 percent to 33 percent less -- that uses the transit networks that deliver the bulk of traffic to internet service providers, said Prajakta Joshi, product manager for cloud networking at Google. The new "Standard Tier" should offer performance comparable to what customers would experience through "other cloud providers," Joshi said, although both Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure operate fiber networks outside of the public internet.

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Re:Comparable performance

[smwny]

The idea of this is to provide a cost and performance comparable to other clouds. Until now, your only option was a lower latency and better quality connection for more money. This is really useful if you have customers all over the world and are serving directly to a user's web browser, but just over priced for everything else. This new change allows customers to spend a lot less money on batch and non-critical jobs while still having access to the "premium" connection for user facing traffic. Disclaimer: I work at Google, but my opinions are my own and do not represent Google.