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Going Multi-Cloud with AWS and GCP: Lessons Learned at Scale
63 points by jbyers
https://metamarkets.com/2017/big-cloud-data-aws-and-gcp/___________________________________________________________________
dswalter - 1 hours ago
If AWS were to go to a per-minute billing cycle, they would be
instantly more price-competitive with Google's offering. Or, to put
it the other way around, those leftover minutes form a significant
chunk of AWS's profit margin.
obulpathi - 33 minutes ago
I don't think so. GCP's bill is usually about 50% of AWS's bill
for same application, if you run it full hour (from my personal
experiences and from several others as well:
https://thehftguy.com/2016/11/18/google-cloud-is-50-cheaper-...).
GCP has lot more cost saving features like seamless scalability,
custom shapes, sustained discounts and so on. If you workloads
span less than hour, GCP can offer more then 50% savings.
boulos - 1 hours ago
Agreed, and I hope they do so!Though there would still be other
things like the lower on-demand rates, custom shapes, networking
that scales with shape (rather than being coarsely grouped),
being able to attach SSD / GPUs semi-arbitrarily, and so on. For
those that care, not having to pay up front for the best price is
also a huge deal. You see the same thing in GCS vs S3 as well:
Glacier and S3-IA have a few rounding up gotchas that catch many
people out.All that said, I hope we all get to per-minute
billing.Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud (but haven't talked to
the Metamarkets folks)
swozey - 1 hours ago
Great thorough comparison and falls very into line with my
experience. Definitely worth the read. Thanks!
throwaway0071 - 27 minutes ago
Off Topic: it's frustrating that these companies spend quite a lot
of time and money learning about the complexities of their
infrastructure but when you're interviewing at such companies,
you're expected to have answers for everything and a complete
strategy for the cloud./rant