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Re:Google Cloud Platform’s Pi API – With access to 750B digi... by manigandham on Wednesday March 15, 2017 @06:02AM (#13875028)
Why? RI's require upfront purchasing, sustained use doesn't. So the comparison is valid because it's comparing on-demand instances from both providers, and Google comes out cheaper.

Otherwise you can say anything has better pricing because you signed a big volume discount upfront, whether you're buying cloud VMs or tires.

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Re:Google Cloud Platform’s Pi API – With access to 750B digi... by sokoloff on Wednesday March 15, 2017 @08:30AM (#13875607)
AWS RIs don't require upfront purchasing (payment). They offer full-upfront; they offer half-upfront; they also offer no-upfront.

Source: https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/reserved-instances/pricin...

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Re:Google Cloud Platform’s Pi API – With access to 750B digi... by manigandham on Wednesday March 15, 2017 @12:26PM (#13877257)
Yes, but it's still upfront purchasing. You don't have to pay immediately but you have to commit to the full term to get the discount, with an option to get more of a discount if you pay early too.

Google's sustained-use discounts have no commitments at all.

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