Re:Google Compute Engine vs. Amazon EC2: Video Transcoding
by wmf on Tuesday July 24, 2012 @05:21PM
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It sounds like EC2 and GCE are using different terminology here, so Google is giving you half as many cores as you think but thanks to Sandy Bridge they're crazy fast.
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Re:Google Compute Engine vs. Amazon EC2: Video Transcoding
by jbeda on Tuesday July 24, 2012 @06:19PM
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We went back and forth on naming the machine types. I'm sure you can imagine those discussions. In the end we opted for naming them based on the number of virtual CPUs from inside the VM. This is easier to remember than arbitrary sizes (small, medium, large) and is always going to be an integer. Hopefully this naming scheme can hold up and make sense over time as new machine types are introduced.