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Re:Cloud pricing comparison: AWS vs. Azure vs. Google Cloud ... by theevilsharpie on Thursday August 26, 2021 @12:26PM (#28317037)
In the Cloud pricing based on On-Demand rates table, the AWS and Azure memory-optimized machines have 32 GB of RAM, but the Google Cloud machine has 961(!) GB of RAM, with a giant price tag to match.

I'm only partway through reading the blog, but this and other errors I've spotted so far make me suspect the accuracy of the blog's analysis.

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Re:Cloud pricing comparison: AWS vs. Azure vs. Google Cloud ... by Scaevolus on Thursday August 26, 2021 @12:35PM (#28317165)
I am shocked to learn that I can get a 32GB RAM VM from AWS for cheaper than a 961GB RAM VM from GCP.

It looks like the author just went to https://cloud.google.com/compute/vm-instance-pricing#memory-... under the assumption that "memory-optimized" was what they needed, not realizing that "memory-optimized" is for truly ridiculous workloads with terabytes of RAM.

For "compute optimized" they're comparing ARM Graviton2 ("price performance optimized") AWS instances (I don't know where; I can't find any that cost >$0.2/hr) in to 3.8GHz Intel Cascade Lake ("highest performance per core") GCP instances... in LA.

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