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Google Cloud Platform’s Pi API – With access to 750B digits of Pi

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Re: Google Cloud Platform’s Pi API – With access to 750B digits of Pi

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Post by sokoloff »

manigandham wrote: post #56
Guest98123 wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"The numbers given in this article do not account for any AWS reservation. However, they all account for Google sustained use discount (30% automatic discount on instances that ran for the entire month)." I'll never understand why people keep referencing that 50% cheaper article. They take into account the 30% monthly discount from Google, but ignore the 47% discount I currently get from Amazon by reserving my instan…

Why? RI's require upfront purchasing, sustained use doesn't. So the comparison is valid because it's comparing on-demand instances from both providers, and Google comes out cheaper. Otherwise you can say anything has better pricing because you signed a big volume discount upfront, whether you're buying cloud VMs or tires.

AWS RIs don't require upfront purchasing (payment). They offer full-upfront; they offer half-upfront; they also offer no-upfront.

Source: https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/reserved-instances/pricin...

Re: Google Cloud Platform’s Pi API – With access to 750B digits of Pi

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Post by tw04 »

jedberg wrote: post #27
nodesocket wrote: post #19

I'm calling this: after attending Google Cloud Next last week, and seeing the huge improvements to GCP in the last 18 months, I am supremely confident that AWS should be worried about Google as a legitimate competitor. $GOOG is betting big on GCP, and they are executing at a very high level releasing iterative products and new features. I'm recommending GCP for all my clients (shameless plug https://elasticbyte.net )…

Most folks on HN are part of the startup crowd, and what that crowd misses is that while GCP is technically superior in every way, they have no idea how to sell to an enterprise. Google's sales method is, "There's the docs, good luck". Enterprises don't like that. They like to be hand held, they like lots of humans taking them out for lunches and dinners. So far Google has not shown any inclination that they know how…

They're well aware and have a plan for that as well.

Re: Google Cloud Platform’s Pi API – With access to 750B digits of Pi

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Post by mabbo »

jedberg wrote: post #27
nodesocket wrote: post #19

I'm calling this: after attending Google Cloud Next last week, and seeing the huge improvements to GCP in the last 18 months, I am supremely confident that AWS should be worried about Google as a legitimate competitor. $GOOG is betting big on GCP, and they are executing at a very high level releasing iterative products and new features. I'm recommending GCP for all my clients (shameless plug https://elasticbyte.net )…

Most folks on HN are part of the startup crowd, and what that crowd misses is that while GCP is technically superior in every way, they have no idea how to sell to an enterprise. Google's sales method is, "There's the docs, good luck". Enterprises don't like that. They like to be hand held, they like lots of humans taking them out for lunches and dinners. So far Google has not shown any inclination that they know how…

It's cultural. Amazon's culture is all about "customer obsession". That's their thing. When they have breakthrough tech products (Kindle, Alexa, etc) it's because they try to focus on the customers needs (and actually get it right, unlike the fire phone).

AWS has an enterprise sales team, many of whom have strong engineering backgrounds, because that's what customer obsession looks like in the cloud world.

Re: Google Cloud Platform’s Pi API – With access to 750B digits of Pi

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Post by 013a »

jedberg wrote: post #27
nodesocket wrote: post #19

I'm calling this: after attending Google Cloud Next last week, and seeing the huge improvements to GCP in the last 18 months, I am supremely confident that AWS should be worried about Google as a legitimate competitor. $GOOG is betting big on GCP, and they are executing at a very high level releasing iterative products and new features. I'm recommending GCP for all my clients (shameless plug https://elasticbyte.net )…

Most folks on HN are part of the startup crowd, and what that crowd misses is that while GCP is technically superior in every way, they have no idea how to sell to an enterprise. Google's sales method is, "There's the docs, good luck". Enterprises don't like that. They like to be hand held, they like lots of humans taking them out for lunches and dinners. So far Google has not shown any inclination that they know how…

Did you even watch GCPNext? The entire event was enterprise-focused. They brought a half-dozen companies on stage to basically say the same thing over and over again: "We moved to Google cloud, its so much better, Google helped us every step of the way."

Its possible these companies were lying, but I think that conference should be evidence enough for any prospective customers that Google is ready.

Re: Google Cloud Platform’s Pi API – With access to 750B digits of Pi

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Post by nihonium »

johnhenry wrote: post #17
lacampbell wrote: post #14

Now, if only there was a service to leftpad my strings...

Not sure if you'r being scarcastic, but... https://api.left-pad.io/?str=be%20careful%20what%20you%20wis...

That's great! I'd like to use this but sending my enterprise data to a third party is not very secure. Do they provide a docker image or ami?

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Post by SEJeff »

jedberg wrote: post #27
nodesocket wrote: post #19

I'm calling this: after attending Google Cloud Next last week, and seeing the huge improvements to GCP in the last 18 months, I am supremely confident that AWS should be worried about Google as a legitimate competitor. $GOOG is betting big on GCP, and they are executing at a very high level releasing iterative products and new features. I'm recommending GCP for all my clients (shameless plug https://elasticbyte.net )…

Most folks on HN are part of the startup crowd, and what that crowd misses is that while GCP is technically superior in every way, they have no idea how to sell to an enterprise. Google's sales method is, "There's the docs, good luck". Enterprises don't like that. They like to be hand held, they like lots of humans taking them out for lunches and dinners. So far Google has not shown any inclination that they know how…

I'm guessing you didn't watch any of the videos of Google Next and haven't been paying attention to their moves for at least a year or two? Their new Customer Reliability Engineering team is no flipping joke. They helped scale out Pokemon Go (among other things).

https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/09/bringing-Pokemo...

Seems like an awful lot of handholding to me, so I suspect your argument is simply invalid.

Re: Google Cloud Platform’s Pi API – With access to 750B digits of Pi

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Post by detaro »

du_bing wrote: post #67

Just curious, what algorithms do you use for computing Pi? I have read about the Fabrice Bellard's job and algorithms about computing Pi, he uses relatively small CPU but his algorithms seem efficient.

The software they used is linked and has a some info about the internals here: http://www.numberworld.org/y-cruncher/algorithms.html
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