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http://blog.robertelder.org/a-weird-old-tip-about-ec2-instan...
It's worth noting that the performance of a given EC2 instance type can vary depending on what hardware you end up with, and that this is not consistent with the 'instance type'. One 'instance type' can be associated with multiple underlying CPUs that have different performance: http://blog.robertelder.org/a-weird-old-tip-about-ec2-instan...
that's why I love Google's custom machine types, fully customizable. https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/creating-ins... and all with fast networks.
I have no idea why people like aws so much. To spin up a simple vm, I had to go to the correct web interface for the specific location, go through a wizard full of weird nicknames for all services while browsing multiple pages of documentation to figure out that I need "ec2" and "t1.micro" or "m2.macro", how much they cost, what the hell an "ebs" is, then download the key they generated (which was only valid for that one location as it turned out later...)
At google, I just selected "vm", specified the location, cpu, ram, storage, entered my own key into a text field, it immediately quoted a price and I was done. 2 clicks and 5 input fields, no documentation needed, all made sense.
that's why I love Google's custom machine types, fully customizable. https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/creating-ins... and all with fast networks.
Yep, as much as I love to hate on google, I recently trialed their vms, aws and azure and google offered the best experience by far. I have no idea why people like aws so much. To spin up a simple vm, I had to go to the correct web interface for the specific location, go through a wizard full of weird nicknames for all services while browsing multiple pages of documentation to figure out that I need "ec2" and "t1.mic…
that's why I love Google's custom machine types, fully customizable. https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/creating-ins... and all with fast networks.
Yep, as much as I love to hate on google, I recently trialed their vms, aws and azure and google offered the best experience by far. I have no idea why people like aws so much. To spin up a simple vm, I had to go to the correct web interface for the specific location, go through a wizard full of weird nicknames for all services while browsing multiple pages of documentation to figure out that I need "ec2" and "t1.mic…
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Yep, as much as I love to hate on google, I recently trialed their vms, aws and azure and google offered the best experience by far. I have no idea why people like aws so much. To spin up a simple vm, I had to go to the correct web interface for the specific location, go through a wizard full of weird nicknames for all services while browsing multiple pages of documentation to figure out that I need "ec2" and "t1.mic…
How much does the experience of your first 15 minutes really matter when you're picking a platform for the next several years?
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Yep, as much as I love to hate on google, I recently trialed their vms, aws and azure and google offered the best experience by far. I have no idea why people like aws so much. To spin up a simple vm, I had to go to the correct web interface for the specific location, go through a wizard full of weird nicknames for all services while browsing multiple pages of documentation to figure out that I need "ec2" and "t1.mic…
How much does the experience of your first 15 minutes really matter when you're picking a platform for the next several years?
If you need a month to properly get to know AWS, any major change will most likely cause another month of getting to know the new system.
Or it could go the other way. No certainty there
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Yep, as much as I love to hate on google, I recently trialed their vms, aws and azure and google offered the best experience by far. I have no idea why people like aws so much. To spin up a simple vm, I had to go to the correct web interface for the specific location, go through a wizard full of weird nicknames for all services while browsing multiple pages of documentation to figure out that I need "ec2" and "t1.mic…
Not to take from noob experience but google just has less features and services. When/if they have as many it will be similar mess. It's already getting there. Also, you could import your own key in aws. Though I agree that aws could benefit from global settings across regions like keys, cloutrails, config and so on. With more regions coming up it becomes unnecessary noise to manage each region separately.
A lot of Googlers lurk these forms and I'm sure they'd love the feedback.
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Yep, as much as I love to hate on google, I recently trialed their vms, aws and azure and google offered the best experience by far. I have no idea why people like aws so much. To spin up a simple vm, I had to go to the correct web interface for the specific location, go through a wizard full of weird nicknames for all services while browsing multiple pages of documentation to figure out that I need "ec2" and "t1.mic…
How much does the experience of your first 15 minutes really matter when you're picking a platform for the next several years?