If you're storing an image Blob in App Engine, should you put it in the Blobstore or Google Cloud Storage?

Question

Google Cloud Storage seems more cost effective than the App Engine Blobstore.

At the moment I am storing user-uploaded image files as Blob

Answer 1

Well, As of Dec 19 2014 It looks like GCS is the way to go. stated on https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/java/storage#alternative_storage_solutions

Google Cloud Storage is recommended over using the Blobstore API.