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

I try to give a different answer. I would suggest Picasa as the image storage in common situation.

I ran into the same question when Google stopped to serve Google Storage for free. But then I noticed that Picasa is free for pictures smaller than 2048x2048 when your Google plus account is enabled. And it's still more cost-effective for paid-storage.

So if you are going to store small pictures like profile pictures, I would suggest App Engine Blobstore. If you are dealing with some more photos and pictures, take a look at Picasa.