Re:AWS vs. GCP reliability is wildly different
by irjustin on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @09:12PM
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I'll say it is valid to use reliability.
If I depend on some performance metric, startup, speed, etc, my dependance on it equates to reliability. Not just on/off but the spectrum that it produces.
If a CPU doesn't operate at its 2GHz setting 60% of the time, I would say that's not reliable. When my bus shows up on time only 40% of the time - I can't rely on that bus to get me where I need to go consistently.
If the GPU took 1 hour to boot, but still booted, is it reliable? What about 1 year? At some point it tips over an "personal" metric of reliability.
The comparison to AWS which consistently out-performs GCP, while not explicitly, implicitly turns that into a reliability metric by setting the AWS boot time as "the standard".
If I depend on some performance metric, startup, speed, etc, my dependance on it equates to reliability. Not just on/off but the spectrum that it produces.
If a CPU doesn't operate at its 2GHz setting 60% of the time, I would say that's not reliable. When my bus shows up on time only 40% of the time - I can't rely on that bus to get me where I need to go consistently.
If the GPU took 1 hour to boot, but still booted, is it reliable? What about 1 year? At some point it tips over an "personal" metric of reliability.
The comparison to AWS which consistently out-performs GCP, while not explicitly, implicitly turns that into a reliability metric by setting the AWS boot time as "the standard".