Comparing Bandwidth Costs of Amazon, Google and Microsoft Cloud Computing

Re:Comparing Bandwidth Costs of Amazon, Google and Microsoft... by Johnny555 on Monday June 05, 2017 @08:07PM (#14493552)

I'm not sure which region you priced, but an m4.16xlarge in us-east-1 (Virginia) is $3.20/hour, or $2304/month.

But if you are comparing it to a purchased server, you ought to be looking at Reserve pricing, a 1 year reserved instance is $16K/year, 3 years is $32K (or you can pay monthly if you want).

Still not as cheap as owning the server, but not quite as bad.

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Re:Comparing Bandwidth Costs of Amazon, Google and Microsoft... by shiftpgdn on Monday June 05, 2017 @08:08PM (#14493560)

I had selected a dedicated instance. It's been my experience the difference in performance between dedicated and non dedicated is dramatic.

edit: I had selected a dedicated instance in order to compare apples to apples. By definition you don't share a colo server.

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Re:Comparing Bandwidth Costs of Amazon, Google and Microsoft... by Johnny555 on Monday June 05, 2017 @08:19PM (#14493630)

With an m4.16xl, there's no effective difference between a dedicated or default tenancy instance - only one .16xl can run on a physical hypervisor, which is reflected in the pricing, it's $3.20/hour whether it's dedicated or not:

https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/on-demand/ https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/purchasing-options/dedicated-inst...

For smaller instances, there is around a 10% increase for dedicated, for example, for an m4.4xl, the price goes to $0.88 for dedicated tenancy versus $0.80 for default.

There is a $2/hour fee for each region in which you have dedicated instances, but that gets lost in the noise if you're using significant AWS resources. (it's $2/hour regardless of how many instances you're running)

We haven't noticed any significant difference between performance on dedicated and non-dedicated instances, and only use dedicated instances where required for compliance/regulatory reasons.

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Re:Comparing Bandwidth Costs of Amazon, Google and Microsoft... by late2part on Tuesday June 06, 2017 @01:34AM (#14494993)

An m4.16xl has 8 physical cores; what hypervisor does AWS buy that only has 8 physical cores?

My smallest physical servers have 8 physical cores.

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Re:Comparing Bandwidth Costs of Amazon, Google and Microsoft... by meatmanek on Tuesday June 06, 2017 @03:52AM (#14495508)

An m4.16xl has 32 cores / 64 threads.

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Re:Comparing Bandwidth Costs of Amazon, Google and Microsoft... by late2part on Tuesday June 06, 2017 @02:43PM (#14499911)

okay, my error - thanks!

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Re:Comparing Bandwidth Costs of Amazon, Google and Microsoft... by openasocket on Monday June 05, 2017 @08:18PM (#14493624)

Why get a dedicated instance and not get reserve pricing? You can get those instances for a fraction of what you're currently paying

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