Google One's paid monthly subscription comes in three flavors-the $1.99 Basic tier, the $2.99 Standard tier, and the $9.99 Premium tier-each of which not only grants users access to a specific amount of storage for emails, cloud backups, and general file management, but also gives users access to other benefits that might not be obvious at first glance. A major benefit to having this storage is that you have access to the files backed up on basically any platform that supports a web browser. Google’s competitive prices will ultimately benefit the entire technology ecosystem, from individuals users and developers to startups and enterprises.While limited to 15GB, the free storage you get from Google One is still useful if you are not trying to back up a large photo library-giving you a place to back up your phone settings, store emails, and save a small collection of important documents. Ideally, Google’s new prices will push other cloud services to do the same in some ways, as ReadWrite contributor Matt Asay notes, it’s already begun happening. If anything, lower prices will push greater adoption rates which, in turn, provide greater focus on optimizing infrastructure to the cloud. Drive is the glue that binds Google’s family of productivity apps together: It’s the home for Docs, Slides and Sheets (Google’s answer to Microsoft’s Office suite of apps), it contains all of your photos from Google+ and it’s the foundation for storage options within Gmail, Google’s popular email service. Google Drive may not be the company’s sexiest offering, but it is one of its most important. Turning Cloud Storage Into A CommodityĪ cheaper Google Drive means more money goes directly to the company, but more importantly, it benefits Google’s entire ecosystem. To reiterate, Google only asks for $10 a month for 1 TB. Similarly, the cheapest plans on Microsoft’s Azure platform cost about $68 per month for 1 TB. Amazon’s popular S3 cloud service, which is a favorite among developers (Dropbox included), costs roughly $85/month for a terabyte of space.
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