Google Cloud is 50% cheaper than AWS

Re:Google Cloud is 50% cheaper than AWS by vgt on Saturday November 19, 2016 @01:45PM (#12994902)

You bring up a good point. Amazon does give you a better "vertical scaling" story. I'll still challenge you on the "breadth" when it comes to EC2 - the philosophy is just very different. Why do you need a "IO optimized instance" if you want just fast disk - that notion just seems very foreign and arbitrarily-constrained on Google Cloud.

You bring up Local SSD. Google's Local SSD is just badass by comparison:

- 680,000 Read and 360,000 Write IOPS included in the cost [0]

- $0.218 per GB per month. Instance cost is separate.

- Again, you can attach these to any instance type (hence the point on fragmentation of instances on EC2)

- AWS goes up to 365,000 Read and 315,000 "First Write" IOPS. Only if you buy an i2.8xlarge [2]

- An i2.8xlarge is $6.82 per hour.

You do the math :)

And someone else did more comparisons here [1]

[0] https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/disks/performance

[1] https://medium.com/google-cloud/new-google-cloud-ssds-have-a...

[2] http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/i2-instan...

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Re:Google Cloud is 50% cheaper than AWS by inframouse on Saturday November 19, 2016 @02:30PM (#12995164)

The real problem I have is the low network performance. Yes, yes, before everyone jumps all over me and points to Jupiter etc.. I understand the problems in Pb/s bisection bandwidth for the large datacenters. That doesn't change the fact that I don't need an entire datacenter worth of stuff.. but I do need an Amdahl-balanced cluster. So big machines with wimpy (20Gb non-RDMA) networks prevent me doing my HPCish workloads on GCE.

Followed by waiting on GPUs and other user accessible accelerators of course.

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Re:Google Cloud is 50% cheaper than AWS by vgt on Saturday November 19, 2016 @04:51PM (#12995896)

hit me up, i'll connect you with some folks

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