Google Cloud Platform is the first cloud provider to offer Intel Skylake

Re:Google Cloud Platform is the first cloud provider to offe... by doh on Friday February 24, 2017 @01:27PM (#13726224)

Spending on GCP is more predictable than on AWS. Also the general behavior is more predictable. For instance all pre-emptible instances are terminated in 24 hours. On AWS based on when they need the resources.

I believe that whatever GCP does, does better. Faster network, faster spinning and turning off servers, simpler quotas, etc. GCP doesn't offer that many services as AWS and most of those are not very compatible with Apache tools (although they're doing their best, e.g. BigTable looks like Hbase from outside).

In our case, we're running ~28,000 servers on GCE and utilizing many services, especially PubSub, BigQuery, etc. The price we're paying for our setup is roughly 1/4 of a similar setup on AWS.

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Re:Google Cloud Platform is the first cloud provider to offe... by luhn on Saturday February 25, 2017 @01:08AM (#13730318)

> For instance all pre-emptible instances are terminated in 24 hours. On AWS based on when they need the resources.

Uhh, Google will terminate preemptible instances whenever they need the resources as well. Hence the name, "preemptible."

https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/preemptible

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Re:Google Cloud Platform is the first cloud provider to offe... by doh on Saturday February 25, 2017 @02:27AM (#13730504)

True. What I meant is that the servers are going to be terminated in 24 hours, even if they don't need the resources atm. AWS doesn't terminate them up until they don't need them.

Also I personally find much easier to understand is the pricing. It's very consistent and simple. Preemptible servers are discounted by 80% from the regular ones. On AWS the price changes, also they only offer older generations while GCE offers any type at the same discount.

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Re:Google Cloud Platform is the first cloud provider to offe... by nugator on Friday February 24, 2017 @04:08PM (#13727913)

Holy cow, 28 000 servers, can you give us a clue to what you need so many servers for?

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Re:Google Cloud Platform is the first cloud provider to offe... by doh on Friday February 24, 2017 @04:47PM (#13728234)

We're processing videos, a lot of them. Roughly 34PB worth of data every month.

Additionally we're running our search engine at top of it with couple of other services.

You can check what we're up to here https://pex.com

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Re:Google Cloud Platform is the first cloud provider to offe... by EnigmaticLion on Saturday February 25, 2017 @09:38AM (#13731747)

That landing page is a whopping 9MB [1]. Please optimize it for users with slow internet like me. [1] https://www.webpagetest.org/result/170225_RN_1K80/

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Re:Google Cloud Platform is the first cloud provider to offe... by doh on Saturday February 25, 2017 @12:42PM (#13732694)

I apologize. We need to pay more attention to the actual website

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Re:Google Cloud Platform is the first cloud provider to offe... by nugator on Friday February 24, 2017 @04:57PM (#13728300)

Cool, thanks for the info!

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