Re:Google CDN Beta is already one of the fastest CDNs
by wstrange on Monday April 18, 2016 @10:20PM
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Last time I priced out AWS, Azure and GCE, Azure was by far the most expensive - by a long shot - at least for our usage.
I think Microsoft is looking to capture their F500 base that are highly Windows/AD-centric.
Re:Google CDN Beta is already one of the fastest CDNs
by nikolay on Tuesday April 19, 2016 @01:52AM
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Well, I guess, GCE has won the price war. I haven't checked pricing recently, but it looks vastly cheaper than Azure here: https://www.cloudorado.com/cloud_server_comparison.jsp
Am I missing something?
Re:Google CDN Beta is already one of the fastest CDNs
by tedmiston on Tuesday April 19, 2016 @02:12AM
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Well Microsoft also started giving $120k (first 12 months) in free credit to startups that went through most accelerators, whereas equivalent AWS credit has been exhausted by most of us.
Note that for YC, the number is $500k.
Re:Google CDN Beta is already one of the fastest CDNs
by nikolay on Tuesday April 19, 2016 @02:27AM
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I've heard about this as well - a friend's startup has a vast free infrastructure on Azure using the same program, but I think though you'll be in troubles having to migrate to AWS/GCE when you run out of the free credits and your startup survives one year and migration is the last thing you wanna deal with at that time. :)
Re:Google CDN Beta is already one of the fastest CDNs
by pcx on Tuesday April 19, 2016 @01:29AM
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Google's innovation is what they are doing with Kubernetes. Amazon's ECS is meh when you compare it to Kubernetes. I don't think Azure has done anything yet in this area.
Re:Google CDN Beta is already one of the fastest CDNs
by nikolay on Tuesday April 19, 2016 @01:41AM
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True, but you don't need GCE to run Kubernetes. Also, given GCE is more rudimentary, you need Kubernetest with GCE more than you need it with AWS. For example, if you want to run Elasticsearch or a video transcoding service, you need something like Kubernetes on GCE, but you already get a managed service from AWS that does this well.
With Lambda, API Gateway, WAF, and ECS, DynamoDB or RDS, you pretty much can cover 95% of the usage scenarios.
Also, if people mostly cared about "the fastest", you'd see only Akamai in the past, but, no, people wanted freedom! I was stuck with Akamai and their $600/hr professional services for too long to know this first-hand! And "the fastest" is when the service is not heavily utilized like the rest and it has very limited functionality. Plus, other vendors constantly improve as well. The fastest service today is not the fastest of the tomorrow, but the one that starts with a minuscule subset of the baseline and what the others is doomed!