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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...
Google's sustained-use discounts have no commitments at all.
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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.
> The entire event was enterprise-focused Some very old-school enterprises are working with Google to onboard GCP in their organisations. A few of them even spoke at the event. I'm assuming they've done due diligence to ensure that Google will devote time and attention span to GCP and not treat it like a "side project". Also, looking at this logically, whether Google offers GCP or not, you can't deny that that they'l…
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> Also, they don't have a sales force like Amazon. A bunch of non-engineer humans who do nothing but convince other people to buy their product. Here's the catch, the "bunch of non-engineer humans" as you called them are not stupid though. All around these people are watching the landscape and market. They are aware that GCP has a superior pricing structure and can be up to 50% cheaper[1]. Therefore my theory is that…
"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…
I also wrote an article discussing why "Committed Use Discounts" is a much bigger deal than just a "price model" at [1].
It'd be great for "thefht" guy to do the comparison, but data's already out there.
(work at Google Cloud)
[0] http://www.rightscale.com/blog/cloud-cost-analysis/aws-reser...
[1] https://hackernoon.com/why-googles-answer-to-aws-reseved-ins...
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> The entire event was enterprise-focused Some very old-school enterprises are working with Google to onboard GCP in their organisations. A few of them even spoke at the event. I'm assuming they've done due diligence to ensure that Google will devote time and attention span to GCP and not treat it like a "side project". Also, looking at this logically, whether Google offers GCP or not, you can't deny that that they'l…
Yes. Sales is easy to staff up but technology is very hard to build. Google is going in the right order and can easily hire the enterprise handlers it needs to close large contracts.
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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.
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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.
That first visualization using d3 is a classic example of a bad visualization isn't it? It's extremely difficult to get a sense of the difference in off-diagonal transition rates, and impossible to get an accurate sense of them or any sense at all of the on-diagonals. And yet, the transition rates could have been conveyed perfectly well by writing them in a 10 by 10 table! Maybe shading the cells of the table somehow…