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TL/DR - Preemptible VMs are the same as regular instances except for one key difference - they may be shut down at any time [1, 2, 3]. Similar to early AWS spot
by WestCoastJustin 11y ago
TL/DR - Preemptible VMs are the same as regular instances except for one key difference - they may be shut down at any time [1, 2, 3]. Similar to early AWS spot instances from what I gather (minus the bidding exchange).
[1] http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.ca/2015/05/Introducing-Preemptible-VMs-a-new-class-of-compute-available-at-70-off-standard-pricing.html http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.ca/2015/05/Introducing-P...
[2] https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/preemptible https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/preemptible
[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9564122 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9564122
- boulos 11y agoAnd of course we give you a 70% discount ;). Disclaimer: I worked on Preemptible VMs.
- boundlessdreamz 11y agoI love Google Cloud except for Google Cloud Storage request pricing. Cloud Storage considers retrieving an object through its HTTP url is considered a class B XML request type which is priced at $0.01/10,000 ops. This is 1.3x-2.5x more expensive than cloudfront and s3 respectively Can you get somone who works on Cloud Storage to take a look at the pricing please? :) It seems like an anomaly since Google Cloud is usually at par or cheaper than AWS equivalents. Also, the pricing on this page https://cloud.google.com/storage/pricing#operations-pricing https://cloud.google.com/storage/pricing#operations-pricing specifies only XML API pricing. I didn't expect HTTP GET requests to be counted as XML API requests and that caused me some trouble. We moved from cloudfront to Cloud Storage and the bill increased
- boulos 11y agoSorry for the confusion; I'll file a docs bug to make it clear that direct web serving of GCS buckets triggers class B get requests. The pricing difference has been a long battle...