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Each billing account gets 1 free zonal cluster so the cost for keeping a small cluster up won't change.
How do if i know if my cluster is zonal? Does it mean all nodes are vms provisioned in the same zone?
>A single-zone cluster has a single control plane (master) running in one zone. This control plane manages workloads on nodes running in the same zone.
https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/concepts/typ...
Wow, this is a huge bummer. A lot of our infrastructure assumptions have been based around having several small GKE clusters.
I think this trend is not good overall, and people will eventually be very unhappy with it. I'd rather help you figure out how to use fewer clusters.
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What? A 73$ price difference to AWS was their main selling point?
It depends entirely on how a firm has their infrastructure set up - if you have small cluster(s) per client for isolation/compliance purposes, you end up with, for example with 250 clients, each one using, say, 1000 billable hours/month: 250 * 0.1 * 1000 = $25,000/month. This is quite the price hike for something that was a) free until now. b) Not a service that warrants such a fee given that it uses existing (GCE) r…
Time to start looking into DigitalOcean more seriously. G Cloud is already unreasonably expensive and nearly impossible to price manage. It's cool to see them double-down on that.
DO is pretty famous for losing data. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20064169 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17225665
It’s a race to the bottom on price so this doesn’t surprise me. They chose this life.
I don't offhand remember AWS increasing prices for a service before but I might be wrong. How often does Google increase prices? For a business I prefer a company that starts with higher prices and then only lowers them to one that may increase them at any time.
AWS lowering compute costs is fairly largely shared, but I am curious if anyone has compiled a list of the cloud providers (AWS, Azure, and GCC) increasing the costs of services.
Time to start looking into DigitalOcean more seriously. G Cloud is already unreasonably expensive and nearly impossible to price manage. It's cool to see them double-down on that.
DO is pretty famous for losing data. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20064169 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17225665
Time to start looking into DigitalOcean more seriously. G Cloud is already unreasonably expensive and nearly impossible to price manage. It's cool to see them double-down on that.
DO is pretty famous for losing data. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20064169 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17225665
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DO is pretty famous for losing data. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20064169 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17225665
Goddammit.
Ah, the sound of former Oracle executives counting their GCP bonuses.
Why people think cloud providers are benevolent provider of infra is beyond me. Their margin is because people are willing to pay it. Either run your own metal (k8s arguably makes this easier than VMs along in the past) or form a cloud coop, but absolutely don't be shocked when a business is taking money off the table because they can. Don't marry yourself to a provider, stay portable, it's just good risk management.…
AWS, for example, begins with high prices and then lowers them over time. It costs money but you know the maximum.
Google seems to be grabbing you with cheap prices and then jacking them up when you're committed (google maps is another example offhand). Maybe no on purpose but bad initial pricing and ill-intent have the same impact externally.