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Re:Why We Moved from Amazon Web Services to Google Cloud Pla... by jacques_chester on Saturday August 06, 2016 @09:41AM (#12238083)
The gap is that you are expected to serve most of your traffic through their blob stores and CDNs, not through the compute instances.

The traffic prices for each of these are very different.

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Re:Why We Moved from Amazon Web Services to Google Cloud Pla... by api on Saturday August 06, 2016 @06:16PM (#12240141)
In that case I can just use S3 for blobs and use Digital Ocean and Vultr and Linode for compute. Amazon charges $0 for bandwidth ingress so uploading to S3 costs me nothing.

We use VPS providers for compute and S3 for backup and large blob storage. The only other Amazon product we use is Route 53, which is a decent DNS-as-a-service and is very reliable.

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Re:Why We Moved from Amazon Web Services to Google Cloud Pla... by jacques_chester on Sunday August 07, 2016 @09:02AM (#12241964)
Of course. The trick is to decide what mix of lower price and lower complexity is your sweet spot.
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