Cloud Pricing Comparison: AWS vs. Azure vs. Google Cloud Platform in 2022
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#2These comparisons are fairly meaningless even on IaaS only class deployments. Instance costs aren't necessarily the biggest cost or the best cost optimisation path in the cloud.
For example our S3 costs are higher than our EC2 costs and we made a productive saving implementing lifecycle and S3 IA migration. The biggest EC2 cost reduction we made was through careful analysis and moving some stuff to Lambda, not by changing provider or instance class optimisation.
Whatever happens though, you don't know what the costs are going to be until you get the first bill, regardless of what you estimate.
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#3After switching away, the tab title started changing to and from "Message from CAST AI".
This annoyed me, so I closed the article. How's that for engagement?
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#4I'm a bit confused, if you look at the On Demand for compute optimized it states that Azure is $0.0846.
But if you do a 1 year commitment it's $0.10...
I think they got the data messed up in here.
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#5I'm a bit confused, if you look at the On Demand for compute optimized it states that Azure is $0.0846. But if you do a 1 year commitment it's $0.10... I think they got the data messed up in here.
Maybe the price is guaranteed not to increase past $0.10? But over the long-term, computing cost should fall, otherwise something is seriously wrong.
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#6These comparisons are fairly meaningless even on IaaS only class deployments. Instance costs aren't necessarily the biggest cost or the best cost optimisation path in the cloud. For example our S3 costs are higher than our EC2 costs and we made a productive saving implementing lifecycle and S3 IA migration. The biggest EC2 cost reduction we made was through careful analysis and moving some stuff to Lambda, not by cha…
I fully agree with this: to generalize, it’s useless to look at just prices, you really need to take performance and other parts into consideration too.
For example, we rely heavily on storage (with deployments in the 100TB - 1PB range), where we have a lot of churn in data and as such require a lot of throughput. AWS’s GP3 EBS volumes offer 1GB/sec throughout each at a really attractive price, there simply isn’t any comparable offering for this at Azure at that price point (only the ultra premium SSD variant, which is more like IO2 EBS).
Does anyone know whether there are any real in-depth studies and comparisons between performance of cloud providers, on the level of, say, the STAC benchmarks?
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#7Cloud price comparisons are often apples to oranges.
Due in part to an extremely large number of hidden factors.
I'm not just talking about direct cost, but even 1vCPU != 1vCPU.
When discussing s3/gcs storage; for instance, you would need to understand the difference between each of the storage classes and how they're charged for access.
This would look much more like a series of a million graphs than a table.
On the whole: I'm extremely unimpressed by this article. Maybe one day when I'm bored enough I'll give a shot to a reasonable cost comparison of some actual infrastructure.
Maybe even throw in some TCO calculation for administrative duties, such as understanding your billing, ease of debugging and setup. If I really hate myself that day.
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#8Standard marketing page for improving SEO.
Short answer: it depends
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#9This doesn't take into account GCP's sustained usage discount which makes the instances cheaper than AWS.
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#10I see no mention of bandwidth pricing.
Some time ago, I evaluated the pricing for someone who was thinking of moving a web server from a traditional private server to AWS. It seemed that the monthly cost would be lower, until I looked at the bandwidth cost. The monthly price of that traditional private server, which included a fixed bandwidth limit, ended up being lower than what it would cost just for the bandwidth on AWS.