(Ingress is free.) Google also rounds up storage charges for Nearline to the nearest month - such as data stored in Nearline, then deleted within the month is charged as if it had been there for the entire month.Īmazon offers a similar long-term storage service, Glacier, as part of its cloud. Nearline, like other Google cloud-storage offerings, favors putting data in the system and leaving it there, thus encouraging users to build more infrastructure around it. Aside from the 1-cent-per-gigabyte-per-month storage charge, other fees accumulate for using Nearline, such as network egress charges. NetApp's SteelStore appliance is also scheduled to be compatible with Nearline "in the second half of 2015." In Veritas' case, for instance, NetBackup 7 will be able to use Nearline as a backup target. The blog post names Veritas/Symantec, NetApp, Iron Mountain, and Geminare as partners that will have products that support Nearline in some form.
Google wants this service to be adopted not just by Google Cloud Platform users, but by those performing backups using brand-name data storage solutions. Data is stored in Nearline by creating a bucket, in the same manner as Standard storage, then simply writing to and reading from the bucket - as one might with Standard storage. According to the documentation for Nearline, data stored in the service "has the same durability and comparable availability as Standard storage but with lower storage costs," and with higher latency than Google's Standard Storage tier.
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