[coffeeenjoyer]

I assume most of that 2PB network traffic was not egress, right? Otherwise how did it "only" cost you $8k on Google Cloud? Even at a cost of 0.02$ per GB, which is usually a few times lower than the actual prices I could find there, that would still result in an invoice of about $40k...

[CodesInChaos]

The first 500TB should have cost $35k already. At that point pricing goes from $0.06/GB to "contact us". So I'd have expected google to charge $80k or so for the whole thing. (Unless google decided to forgive most of the cost)