I have 10TB of data in my Google Cloud Storage bucket, and I see that I need to pay $0.12/GB to download it. This means I would need to pay $1,200 just to complete the transfer. This doesn't make sense to me, especially since the entire computation cost only a few hundred dollars.
While searching online, I couldn’t find others complaining about this issue, which seems strange. While 10TB is above average usage, it’s not an enormous amount of data, so I would expect others to face the same problem. Paying over $1,000 just for data transfer feels unreasonable. When I initially uploaded my data (~750GB), it took me almost two days, but it was free (Google didn’t charge for the upload, and my ISP plan costs around $30/month for unlimited upload/download).
The documentation doesn’t seem to address this issue, and the only suggestion I found was to try Google Cloud Interconnect. However, I haven’t been able to find any clear assurance that setting it up will reduce the data transfer costs to a reasonable amount.
Because I assume others must face this issue too—but I haven’t found any mention of it—I wonder if I’m just searching for the wrong thing (or perhaps nobody downloads 10TB from cloud storage?).
I would really appreciate any leads or advice on how to get my data out for the lowest possible cost.
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