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Harshit Kachhwaha
Harshit Kachhwaha

Reputation: 39

How to avoid High Download charges when we pull docker images on cloud builds

We are building our stack on google cloud builds and for building we are using custom docker base images which are stored in gcr.io/project-name/image-name

While using this method we are e getting charged on Download Worldwide Destinations (excluding Asia & Australia)

Is there any way that we can reduce the High download charges? if we will run cloud builds and pull docker images from same region i.e. running docker build on us-central1 and pulling docker image from us-central1-docker.dev.pkg/project-name/image-name will it reduce the download charges (No charge) ?

As we found one ref : https://cloud.google.com/storage/pricing#network-buckets

Or is there any other solution ?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 466

Answers (1)

Robert G
Robert G

Reputation: 2065

Just to expand on @John Hanley's comment, according to this documentation on location considerations:

A good location balances latency, availability, and bandwidth costs for data consumers.

Choosing the closest and same region will help optimize latency and network bandwidths. It would also be convenient to choose the region where it contains the majority of your data users.

There is a Cloud Storage Always Free usage limits wherein 1GB Network Egress is free from North America to each GCP egress destination (excluding Australia and China) however starting October 1, 2022, it would be upgraded to 100GB You can check the full documentation on Changes to Always Free usage limits.

Upvotes: 1

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