"Unless Glacier just changed their pricing, how is it cheaper and simpler? Glacier is also $.01/GB storage, but only $.09/GB retrieval, which is cheaper than google's $.12/GB. Glacier also comes with 1st GB retrieval free/mo."
As long as we are comparing effective pricing, which is the only number that matters with Glacier and "Google Nearline" (and, to some degree, S3) it should be noted that rsync.net PB-scale is 3.0 cents with no additional charges.
That is, the effective price, no matter what your use-case or traffic/usage, is 3.0 cents per GB.[1]
Of course, you do have to buy a petabyte of it ...
As long as we are comparing effective pricing, which is the only number that matters with Glacier and "Google Nearline" (and, to some degree, S3) it should be noted that rsync.net PB-scale is 3.0 cents with no additional charges.
That is, the effective price, no matter what your use-case or traffic/usage, is 3.0 cents per GB.[1]
Of course, you do have to buy a petabyte of it ...
[1] http://www.rsync.net/products/petabyte.html