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Re:Google Drops Compute Engine Prices by 10 Percent by kolev on Wednesday October 01, 2014 @10:44PM (#8399175)
How about reserved instances? Does GCE offer equivalent of it? To us, reserved instances is giving us significant saving, well, some of eaten by the 10% surcharge from the support plan, unfortunately.
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Re:Google Drops Compute Engine Prices by 10 Percent by iforapsy on Thursday October 02, 2014 @12:06AM (#8399377)
Google Compute Engine has sustained use discounts: the longer you run an instance, the lower the price per minute that you pay. If you run an instance for a full month, you end up being charged only 70% of that instance's price. Essentially, it's like AWS's reserved instances except you don't have to plan for it ahead of time.

https://cloud.google.com/compute/pricing#sustained_use

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Re:Google Drops Compute Engine Prices by 10 Percent by kolev on Thursday October 02, 2014 @01:01AM (#8399484)
That's actually a good idea and something that removes the need to create a marketplace for reserved instances you no longer need. Thanks for the info!
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