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Google Cloud Spanner is now half the cost of Amazon DynamoDB

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Re: Google Cloud Spanner is now half the cost of Amazon DynamoDB

#11
"as little as $65 USD/month" for GCP Spanner

vs AWS Free Tier:

"25 GB of data storage ... 2.5 million stream read requests ..."

https://aws.amazon.com/dynamodb/pricing/

So, there's probably somewhere the lines on the graph cross, but Google's headline seems misleading.

Re: Google Cloud Spanner is now half the cost of Amazon DynamoDB

#12

if they're cutting the price they are likely worried about the product... are they going to cancel it like every other product they've released?

They didn't cut the price. They increased performance and are claiming half price to a similar workload on Amazon. Titles a little disingenuous.

Re: Google Cloud Spanner is now half the cost of Amazon DynamoDB

#15
And for many projects, Postgres is still cheaper than both. Having used both, I would much, much rather do the work to fit my project in Postgres/CockroachDB than use either Spanner or DynamoDB, which have WAY more footguns. Not to mention sudden cost spikes, vendor lock in, and god knows what else.

AWS and GCP (and Azure, and Oracle cloud, and bare Kubernetes via an operator, and...) support Postgres really well. Just...use Postgres.

Re: Google Cloud Spanner is now half the cost of Amazon DynamoDB

#20

And for many projects, Postgres is still cheaper than both. Having used both, I would much, much rather do the work to fit my project in Postgres/CockroachDB than use either Spanner or DynamoDB, which have WAY more footguns. Not to mention sudden cost spikes, vendor lock in, and god knows what else. AWS and GCP (and Azure, and Oracle cloud, and bare Kubernetes via an operator, and...) support Postgres really well. Ju…

Postgres is the database God himself would have made.
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