Google Announces Massive Price Drops for Cloud Computing Services, Storage

Re:Google Announces Massive Price Drops for Cloud Computing ... by panarky on Tuesday March 25, 2014 @01:55PM (#7467521)

That's not quite a fair comparison. The $35.38 Google price takes advantage of their sustained usage discount, if the instance is running the entire month.

The EC2 price is the full rack rate. You can do better with a spot instance, or by paying up front for a 1-year or 3-year reserved instance.

It's still a stunning price drop from Google. And from my tests, the Google instances give a lot more performance than the supposedly equivalent EC2 instances.

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Re:Google Announces Massive Price Drops for Cloud Computing ... by johne20 on Tuesday March 25, 2014 @02:13PM (#7467670)

Can you speak more to "Google instances give a lot more performance than the supposedly equivalent EC2 instances"?

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Re:Google Announces Massive Price Drops for Cloud Computing ... by panarky on Tuesday March 25, 2014 @02:35PM (#7467823)

For my projects, Google instances boot faster, have lower network latency, higher network throughput to storage, and more IOPS than EC2 "provisioned IOPS" volumes.

It's really amazing. I can snapshot a 1 TB volume in the US and start a new instance with it in Europe in less than 10 minutes.

Scalr did a more rigorous benchmark, details here: http://gigaom.com/2013/03/15/by-the-numbers-how-google-compu...

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Re:Google Announces Massive Price Drops for Cloud Computing ... by nolok on Tuesday March 25, 2014 @02:52PM (#7467991)

There are quite a few cases where you can't or don't want to deal with your instance disappearing at any moment by design (spot) nor with an annual subscription though

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