[AusNOG] Sydney Google Cloud routing region active

[Mark Andrews]

In message <CAEUfUGOB+iahFKE1T7Rz_vJOGt0M3WJ5xhQzUA2FDDs0GxJ_Og at mail.gmail.com>, Skeeve Stevens writes:
> 
> I'd like to see Google justify those costs.
> 
> Phillip?

I suspect the costs are dominated by the costs of delivering via the
Go4 which refuse to peer with them.
 
Mark

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> On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 12:59 PM, James Andrewartha <trs80 at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au
> > wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 22 Jun 2017, Phillip Grasso wrote:
> >
> > > FYI.
> > > Should change some traffic towards Sydney region.
> > >
> > > https://cloud.google.com/about/locations/sydney/
> > >
> > > Tell me if want to switch to GCP :-)
> >
> > Like every other region it's charging 19c/GB for data to Australia, even
> > though it's in Australia. And 19c/GB for data to the rest of the world
> > (except China) vs 12c/GB from most other locations. While you do get a
> > discount for higher transfer rates, the Australia tax gets proportionally
> > worse to nearly double the price - 8c/GB for non-Australia/China traffic
> > in other regions vs 15c/GB for traffic to Australia.
> >
> > https://cloud.google.com/compute/pricing#internet_egress
> >
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