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I think this is a bit misleading. In my experience, EBS/S3 and GCS expenses are dominated by data transfer costs. Linode is providing 1 to 20 TB data transfer free with the compute. While comparing, we'd have to compare (one Linode plus block storage costs) to (one EC2/GCE node plus EBS/S3/GCS storage costs plus network transfer costs).

This is more like EBS on AWS, which is also $0.10 / GB-month for gp2 volumes.

That's pretty standard pricing (look at DO block storage or Vultr's offerings). Keep in mind that this is true block storage, not document or object storage. You can mount object storage, sure-but it's always going to be less reliable than actual block storage.

Block storage is completely different from object storage (S3). You're comparing apples and Volkswagens. This competes with ebs, except with more redundancy.