AWS announces per-second billing for EC2 instances

Likely due to GCP competition. I believe GCP was always per-second? [Edit: Misremember that, they were always per-minute. Lots of good information below directly form the related parties.]

Azure looks to be per-hour [Edit: Wrong again, they are per-minute as well. Oddly enough, I did check their pricing page before, but missed the per-minute paragraph and only saw the hourly pricing] but I'm seeing something about container instances possibly being per-second.

Re: AWS announces per-second billing for EC2 instances

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Post by _wmd » Mon, Sep 18, 2017, 7:11 PM UTC

zedpm wrote: post #4

That's sure nice, but I'm waiting for AWS to switch to automatic sustained use discounts [0] like GCP offers. [0]: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/sustained-use-discount...

It wouldn't be a switch, it'd be a new feature. GCP also offers the equivalent of explicit instance reservations

Re: AWS announces per-second billing for EC2 instances

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Sep 18, 2017, 7:12 PM UTC

JosephLark wrote: post #5

Likely due to GCP competition. I believe GCP was always per-second? [Edit: Misremember that, they were always per-minute. Lots of good information below directly form the related parties.] Azure looks to be per-hour [Edit: Wrong again, they are per-minute as well. Oddly enough, I did check their pricing page before, but missed the per-minute paragraph and only saw the hourly pricing] but I'm seeing something about co…

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Re: AWS announces per-second billing for EC2 instances

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Post by Scaevolus » Mon, Sep 18, 2017, 7:13 PM UTC

JosephLark wrote: post #5

Likely due to GCP competition. I believe GCP was always per-second? [Edit: Misremember that, they were always per-minute. Lots of good information below directly form the related parties.] Azure looks to be per-hour [Edit: Wrong again, they are per-minute as well. Oddly enough, I did check their pricing page before, but missed the per-minute paragraph and only saw the hourly pricing] but I'm seeing something about co…

GCP VMs are per-minute, with a minimum of 10 minutes (vs AWS' new minimum of 1 minute). Second resolution is nice, but I doubt it makes much difference in pricing for most workloads. https://cloud.google.com/compute/pricing#billingmodel

Azure's containers don't use a full VM-- they're more like AWS Lambda or other serverless frameworks, so they do per-second billing with no minimums.

Disclaimer: I work at Google on Container Engine.

Re: AWS announces per-second billing for EC2 instances

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Sep 18, 2017, 7:14 PM UTC

JosephLark wrote: post #5

Likely due to GCP competition. I believe GCP was always per-second? [Edit: Misremember that, they were always per-minute. Lots of good information below directly form the related parties.] Azure looks to be per-hour [Edit: Wrong again, they are per-minute as well. Oddly enough, I did check their pricing page before, but missed the per-minute paragraph and only saw the hourly pricing] but I'm seeing something about co…

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Re: AWS announces per-second billing for EC2 instances

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Post by zedpm » Mon, Sep 18, 2017, 7:15 PM UTC

_wmd wrote: post #6

zedpm wrote: post #4

That's sure nice, but I'm waiting for AWS to switch to automatic sustained use discounts [0] like GCP offers. [0]: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/sustained-use-discount...

It wouldn't be a switch, it'd be a new feature. GCP also offers the equivalent of explicit instance reservations

Good point, poor choice of words on my part.