Comparison of Google Cloud Rapid Bucket and Rapid Cache pricing and throughput for AI checkpointing in 2026

AI & Cloud Infrastructure · Aug 3, 2026 · 19 min read

Rapid Bucket at $0.11/GiB-month vs Rapid Cache: 2026 AI checkpoint cost maths

Rapid Bucket is 5.5x the per-GiB price of standard Cloud Storage and bills for reads a same-region bucket serves free. On 50 TiB of checkpoints that is about $5,243 a month extra. Here is the arithmetic.

Manu Shukla

#Google Cloud #AI infrastructure #cloud storage

Cloud storage pricing 2026 hero comparing AWS, Azure and GCP tiers

Cloud & FinOps · Jul 23, 2026 · 13 min read

Cloud storage pricing in 2026: AWS S3 vs Azure vs GCP compared

S3 Standard runs $0.023/GB and GCP Standard $0.020 in 2026, but egress and retrieval fees decide the real bill. Compare AWS, Azure and GCP storage tiers, and the tactics that actually cut spend.

Manu Shukla

#cloud storage #aws-s3 #Azure Blob