Paste a line item from your invoice and find what it bills for, across the Google Cloud services covered so far.
Operations and retrieval
Class A/B operations, retrieval fees, and early deletion.
Early Delete (EarlyDelete-ByteHrs)
On-demandA charge for deleting, replacing, or rewriting an object before its storage class minimum duration has elapsed. You are billed as though the object had stayed for the full period. It is one of the least self-explanatory SKU names on a Google Cloud bill and one of the easiest to eliminate.
Billed: Byte-hours for the unused remainder of the minimum storage duration (Nearline 30 days, Coldline 90, Archive 365), billed when the object is deleted, replaced, or rewritten.
Class A and Class B Operations
On-demandCloud Storage bills for API calls as well as for bytes. Class A covers writes and listing; Class B covers reads. Listing is the one that catches people: it is a Class A operation, and code that lists a bucket in a loop can generate an operations bill larger than the storage bill.
Billed: Priced per 1,000 operations, by storage class, location type and bucket namespace. On Standard, Class A (writes, lists) costs more than ten times Class B (reads); the gap narrows on colder classes, which charge more for both, and closes on Archive.