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Re:Google joins Open Compute Project to drive standards in I... by justicezyx on Thursday March 10, 2016 @11:54AM (#11260332)
Why would you choose GCP over AWS at this point? Other than the potential that in the near future GCP can provide services that are cheaper, more reliable, and more performant (note that none of these are true today).
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Re:Google joins Open Compute Project to drive standards in I... by vgt on Friday March 11, 2016 @11:07AM (#11267381)
Just yesterday Quizlet posted a long expose that, in their opinions, shows that GCP is cheaper, more reliable (live migration), more performant than AWS, with details to boot:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11260137

And last month Spotify did the same thing.

The price differences between EC2 and GCE, especially with Custom VMs, is massive. Up to 40% according to this:

http://www.zdnet.com/article/what-google-says-to-aws-price-c...

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