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Re: Show HN: EC2 prices per GB of memory

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Post by bryanlarsen »

eropple wrote: post #9
nodesocket wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I havent looked at OVH lately, but are they really a cloud? Do they provide full VPC with central firewall? Dynamic network disk storage that can be mapped to servers?

OVH does have their vRack stuff these days, but it's iffy and clearly intended for dedicated hardware. They have no block storage that I'm aware of.

They do have it: https://www.ovh.com/ca/en/public-cloud/storage/additional-di...

It's OpenStack Cinder.

They also have object storage, Swift: https://www.ovh.com/ca/en/public-cloud/storage/object-storag...

Re: Show HN: EC2 prices per GB of memory

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Post by eropple »

bryanlarsen wrote: post #11
eropple wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

OVH does have their vRack stuff these days, but it's iffy and clearly intended for dedicated hardware. They have no block storage that I'm aware of.

They do have it: https://www.ovh.com/ca/en/public-cloud/storage/additional-di... It's OpenStack Cinder. They also have object storage, Swift: https://www.ovh.com/ca/en/public-cloud/storage/object-storag...

TIL, thanks! Didn't realize OVH was OpenStack--that's a pretty hard no for me, because I've witnessed firsthand the failure conditions there, but I appreciate the correction.

Re: Show HN: EC2 prices per GB of memory

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Post by Cidan »

nodesocket wrote: post #4

Pricing is yet another area where Google Compute Engine is superior. Automatic sustained use discounts[1], the ability to commit long term to a certain amount of cpus and memory and get a discount without any upfront cost[2]. Extended memory[3], basically you can craft a VM instance of any size. Need just 1 cpu but 32 GB of memory, no problem. AWS on the other hand... A labyrinth of pricing tables, spot instances, EB…

Came here to post this -- moving our infra from AWS to GCP was the best decision I've ever made.

Re: Show HN: EC2 prices per GB of memory

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Post by marcc »

dzdt wrote: post #13

Forgive me for a dumb question from someone who doesn't do cloud computing currently : the units are really $/GB/time period, yes? What is the time period? One hour? day? month?

There's a selector on the toolbar, top right, that let's you choose the time period.

Re: Show HN: EC2 prices per GB of memory

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Post by eropple »

chx wrote: post #5
jbverschoor wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Best bang for buck is not at amazon.

Right. So the Show HN page says you can barely go below $5 per gigabyte with on-demand pricing. OVH RAM instances consistently cost 1.33 $/GB for a machine with 30, 60, 120 or 240GB of RAM.

If all you need is compute and RAM, then OVH dedicated machines are a great choice; I used them for a long time myself and would again for personal stuff. That said, it's important to remember that focusing on that to the exclusion of turn-key services (RDS has saved clients of mine tens of thousands of dollars in billable hours just by itself) doesn't do you so well once you need more than that.

Re: Show HN: EC2 prices per GB of memory

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Post by floatboth »

mschuster91 wrote: post #7
nodesocket wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I havent looked at OVH lately, but are they really a cloud? Do they provide full VPC with central firewall? Dynamic network disk storage that can be mapped to servers?

How does EBS work, anyway? Is it some form of NFS with caching under the hood?

EBS is some kind of Network Block Device. NFS is another product, https://aws.amazon.com/efs/

Re: Show HN: EC2 prices per GB of memory

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Post by electic »

nodesocket wrote: post #4

Pricing is yet another area where Google Compute Engine is superior. Automatic sustained use discounts[1], the ability to commit long term to a certain amount of cpus and memory and get a discount without any upfront cost[2]. Extended memory[3], basically you can craft a VM instance of any size. Need just 1 cpu but 32 GB of memory, no problem. AWS on the other hand... A labyrinth of pricing tables, spot instances, EB…

One thing I would like to add is also the fact that they give you tips on under utilized instances and how much you can save per month. They really go the extra mile to make sure you are paying for what you are truly using and not paying for idling hardware.

Re: Show HN: EC2 prices per GB of memory

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Post by zjfroot »

nodesocket wrote: post #4

Pricing is yet another area where Google Compute Engine is superior. Automatic sustained use discounts[1], the ability to commit long term to a certain amount of cpus and memory and get a discount without any upfront cost[2]. Extended memory[3], basically you can craft a VM instance of any size. Need just 1 cpu but 32 GB of memory, no problem. AWS on the other hand... A labyrinth of pricing tables, spot instances, EB…

Google Cloud maybe is superior in the pricing of compute, but it is actually more expensive on network egress traffic, object storage and block storage.

I recently created a simple tool (http://theprice.cloud/) to compare egress traffic, object storage, and block storage cost among AWS, Google Cloud and Azure. It seems like Googel Cloud is the most expensive one in egress traffic and object storage.

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