Amazon, the world’s most remarkable firm, is just getting started

Re:Amazon, the world’s most remarkable firm, is just getting... by nvarsj on Friday March 24, 2017 @02:36PM (#13951127)

Indeed, AWS is still king. I doubt GCP or Azure would have anywhere near the capacity to handle all of the AWS customers. You're talking orders of magnitude, maybe 1000x? more compute power required - it's a different scale.

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Re:Amazon, the world’s most remarkable firm, is just getting... by user5994461 on Friday March 24, 2017 @04:03PM (#13951824)

Judging by the Hacker News comments, it's google that has more capabilities than AWS.

If you follow comments about both, there are recurring ones of people who order 5000-15000 cores on Google for short computing intensive tasks whereas AWS didn't let them have thousandS. That forced them to switch.

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Re:Amazon, the world’s most remarkable firm, is just getting... by Johnny555 on Friday March 24, 2017 @09:21PM (#13953536)

I find that hard to believe.... 15000 cores is only 1000 16 core serversand my company has no problem with allocating those (300 per AZ) on a monthly basis, using them for a couple days and returning them.

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