AWS vs. GCP reliability is wildly different
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Re: AWS vs. GCP reliability is wildly different
#2This is great.
I have always been feeling there is so little independent content on benchmarking the IaaS providers. There is so much you can measure in how they behave.
Re: AWS vs. GCP reliability is wildly different
#3A few weeks ago I needed to change the volume type on an EC2 instance to gp3. Following the instructions, the change happened while the instance was running. I didn't need to reboot or stop the instance, it just changed the type. While the instance was running.
I didn't understand how they were able to do this, I had thought volume types mapped to hardware clusters of some kind. And since I didn't understand, I wasn't able to distinguish it from magic.
Re: AWS vs. GCP reliability is wildly different
#4Thank you for this article, it confirms my direct experience. Never run a benchmarking test but I can see this every day.
Re: AWS vs. GCP reliability is wildly different
#5A few weeks ago I needed to change the volume type on an EC2 instance to gp3. Following the instructions, the change happened while the instance was running. I didn't need to reboot or stop the instance, it just changed the type. While the instance was running. I didn't understand how they were able to do this, I had thought volume types mapped to hardware clusters of some kind. And since I didn't understand, I wasn'…
Changing the volume type on AWS is somewhat magical. Seeing it happens on-line was amazing.
Re: AWS vs. GCP reliability is wildly different
#6I would love to see the same for deploying things like a cloud/lambda function.
Re: AWS vs. GCP reliability is wildly different
#7A few weeks ago I needed to change the volume type on an EC2 instance to gp3. Following the instructions, the change happened while the instance was running. I didn't need to reboot or stop the instance, it just changed the type. While the instance was running. I didn't understand how they were able to do this, I had thought volume types mapped to hardware clusters of some kind. And since I didn't understand, I wasn'…
Dunno about AWS, but GCP uses live migration, and will migrate your VM across physical machines as necessary. The disk volumes are all connected over the network, nothing really depends on the actual physical machine your VM is ran on.
Re: AWS vs. GCP reliability is wildly different
#8Is this testing for spot instances?
In my limited experience, persistent (on-demand) GCP instances always boot up much faster than AWS EC2 instances.
Re: AWS vs. GCP reliability is wildly different
#9Worth pointing out that the article is measuring provisioning latency and success rates (how quickly can you get a GPU box running and whether or not you get an error back from the API when you try), and not "reliability" as most readers would understand it (how likely they are to do what you want them to do without failure).
Definitely seems like interesting info, though.
Re: AWS vs. GCP reliability is wildly different
#10The link is broken?