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Re:Google’s Cloud Loses Following Among CIOs, Survey Finds by mrj on Wednesday January 07, 2015 @12:42PM (#8851899)
Good. Compute engine is crazy fast because all of the hardware isn't over allocated. Go ahead and use Amazon, I hear good things. :-)
Re:Google’s Cloud Loses Following Among CIOs, Survey Finds by vlikmn on Wednesday January 07, 2015 @02:03PM (#8852519)
Re:Google’s Cloud Loses Following Among CIOs, Survey Finds by jread on Wednesday January 07, 2015 @02:52PM (#8852848)
I wrote that post - new GCE capabilities like pd-ssd and local SSD are very competitive for price and performance. You can review current benchmark metrics here: https://cloudharmony.com/benchmarks
Re:Google’s Cloud Loses Following Among CIOs, Survey Finds by judkowitz on Wednesday January 07, 2015 @02:41PM (#8852778)
Cloud Harmony has done some more testing since then which covers some more configurations and you will see Google does quite well - especially if you normalize by price (not in the charts, but prices are public)

https://cloudharmony.com/benchmarks/compute/storage#4k_Rand_...

https://cloudharmony.com/benchmarks/compute/terasort