Can Google BigQuery's Data Transfer Service use multiple cloud storage location as source destination for Data-Ingestion into BigQuery ?
Is there any different in the way BQ charges data ingestion from GCS vs Any other Cloud source ?
It is mentioned on Data transfer Service's documentation that Effective from 1-June-2017, BQ will charge monthly subscriptions for Data-Transfer-Service ? Do we have any detail on cost model ?
I'm an engineer on the BQ Data Transfer team.
With the data transfer service, you can create multiple transfer configs. For example, you can connect to 100 different GCS buckets that back different DCM accounts (for example), if you like.
There is no difference for loading data - the load jobs in BQ are still free.
The data transfer service will indeed follow a subscription model soon. For details, you can contact Sales, or you may wait for more documentation on https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/transfer/
Hope that helps!
