EC2 Price Reduction (C4, M4, and T2 Instances)
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EC2 Price Reduction (C4, M4, and T2 Instances)
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Re: EC2 Price Reduction (C4, M4, and T2 Instances)
#2honestly , the new prices starts from December/1 and there's only 5% price drop for US datacenters. 20-25% mostly for Singapore and Frankfurt where the original price was higher on that 20-25%.
Re: EC2 Price Reduction (C4, M4, and T2 Instances)
#3Has anyone switched to Google cloud & found it cheaper overall? It seems like there was a lot of interest in Google before but not so much as of late.
Re: EC2 Price Reduction (C4, M4, and T2 Instances)
#4Has anyone switched to Google cloud & found it cheaper overall? It seems like there was a lot of interest in Google before but not so much as of late.
Yeah. Love it. It's way cheaper than AWS because of automatic discounting if you use it for a full month. Performance, boot up time & the dashboard UI/UX is better. (Regarding performance and boot up time, my experience is a bit outdated so things might have changed)
Downside: Some documentation (stackdriver for ex) can be really confusing. Also for opening up port 80 firewall rule wasn't enough, you had to apply the http label (Haven't tested this recently)
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#5Has anyone switched to Google cloud & found it cheaper overall? It seems like there was a lot of interest in Google before but not so much as of late.
Yup. No more reserved instance nightmare and you can play with the custom instances a lot to optimize pricing (like low CPU/high mem etc).
Overall it's much easier to predict than AWS. There are some aspects where documentation could be better. And obviously no managed Postgresql.
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#6Software for bare metal is catching up - you can buy couple of dedicated servers, install something like Kubernetes and will be shaking your head in disbelief how much you over paid for AWS.
Re: EC2 Price Reduction (C4, M4, and T2 Instances)
#7Has anyone switched to Google cloud & found it cheaper overall? It seems like there was a lot of interest in Google before but not so much as of late.
I'm very happy with them and believe it is cheaper, although it's hard to compare considering the explosion of services on both platforms. I initially chose them because I/O performance on gce was ahead by about factor 10 (may have been workload-specific, may have changed – this was about a year ago, may only apply to the smaller machine types with SSD I tested).
I've also had a much easier time getting started, but my AWS experience may be out of date now. But both the web UI as well as the cli client are excellent.
I also prefer google because of their excellent contributions to OSS, their advocacy for an open internet, their lack of sweatshop-warehouses, and their investments in hard problems. (and I know altruism may not be the motive, but still...)
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#8Arggg, does not apply to west coast instances (us-west-1 and us-west-2).
Re: EC2 Price Reduction (C4, M4, and T2 Instances)
#9Software for bare metal is catching up - you can buy couple of dedicated servers, install something like Kubernetes and will be shaking your head in disbelief how much you over paid for AWS.
And shake your head in disbelief further when you find the new setup performs much better.
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#10Has anyone switched to Google cloud & found it cheaper overall? It seems like there was a lot of interest in Google before but not so much as of late.
Actually I don't think that Google Cloud is cheaper, their price model is just superior.