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Comparison (not exactly apples-to-apples): ~3-4Gb RAM: Azure (2cores, >100$/month), Google (1core, ~25$), AWS (37$, or compute optimized 75$) high memory 13-1

Comparison (not exactly apples-to-apples): ~3-4Gb RAM: Azure (2cores, >100$/month), Google (1core, ~25$), AWS (37$, or compute optimized 75$) high memory 13-14Gb: Azure (>246$), Google (~63$), AWS (16Gb, >172$) ... UPD: Thanks to tyingq, Azure 3-4Gb RAM (2cores, starting from 70$)

Arcsech 11y ago
Make sure you're looking at Linux or Windows VMs for both, Azure's ~3-4Gb RAM Linux VMs run $70-$90/mo, whereas their Windows (the default on the pricing page) are $115-$135/mo. All of Azure's VM offerings also include hard disk storage, which is extra on AWS. Also, if you look at Azure's Compute Optimized VM running Linux at 3.5Gb RAM, it comes down to $57/mo, which is much closer and includes 50GB of SSD storage, which Amazon doesn't do at that price point. Also, things like NoSQL databases are completely impossible to compare apples to apples (AWS DynamoDB vs Azure DocumentDB are priced completely differently: DynamoDB is priced on both storage and request streams, DocumentDB is priced on requests/second only) Cloud pricing is complicated - what else is new?
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- metafex 11y ago
  Then better Hetzner vServers, comparable to Linode and DO i guess? The setup is also done in a few minutes and they perform quite nicely.
tyingq 11y ago
Just to illustrate how hard it is to do a simple comparison, you show Azure's 3/4 GB ram offering as being 2 cores and > $100/month. But, if I go to their pricing page (https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/virtual-machines/#Linux https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/virtual-ma...), I see: A2 - 2 Cores, 3.5GB, 40GB: $70 A2 - 2 Cores, 3.5GB, 135GB: $89 D1 - 1 Core, 3.5GB, 50GB: $104 D2 - 2 Cores, 7GB, 100GB: $115 D2V2 - 2 Cores, 7GB, 100GB: $127 Thus, I'm not sure which one you're referring to. You seem to be referring to one with 7GB RAM, which seems not to be a very direct comparison.
- Zenst 11y ago
  Had look and I get totaly different pricing (higher mostly), Central US/USD prices and couple examples: INSTANCE CORES RAM DISK SIZES PRICE D1 1 3.5 GB 50 GB $0.14/hr (~$104/mo) D2 2 7 GB 100 GB $0.28/hr (~$208/mo) So D1 same and yet D2 twice the price! A2 is $134 for same setup. Note they mention discounts for 12 months prepaid, though not exciting and talking 5% discount and you have to be spending $6000 to qualify for that over the 12 month period. Certainly seems, use of proxies and your location effect what you are quoted and I'm located near London and used the Opera browser, so who knows. Certainly indicates that shopping around, even if your hitting the same price page, is prudent.
  - tyingq 11y ago
    You're looking at Windows instances. Click the linux tab.
    - Zenst 11y ago
      You are absolutely right, thank you for clearing that up and indeed I get same prices as you now, accept upon D1 which is (~$57/mo)with D2 - same as you get ~$115/mo . The V2 flavours at $63 and £127 a month (D1 and D2 respectively).
- lobster_johnson 11y ago
  You could calculate price per (RAM, CPU, disk) metric separately, at least.

Arcsech 11y ago

Make sure you're looking at Linux or Windows VMs for both, Azure's ~3-4Gb RAM Linux VMs run $70-$90/mo, whereas their Windows (the default on the pricing page) are $115-$135/mo. All of Azure's VM offerings also include hard disk storage, which is extra on AWS. Also, if you look at Azure's Compute Optimized VM running Linux at 3.5Gb RAM, it comes down to $57/mo, which is much closer and includes 50GB of SSD storage, which Amazon doesn't do at that price point. Also, things like NoSQL databases are completely impossible to compare apples to apples (AWS DynamoDB vs Azure DocumentDB are priced completely differently: DynamoDB is priced on both storage and request streams, DocumentDB is priced on requests/second only) Cloud pricing is complicated - what else is new?

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metafex 11y ago
Then better Hetzner vServers, comparable to Linode and DO i guess? The setup is also done in a few minutes and they perform quite nicely.

tyingq 11y ago

Just to illustrate how hard it is to do a simple comparison, you show Azure's 3/4 GB ram offering as being 2 cores and > $100/month. But, if I go to their pricing page (https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/virtual-machines/#Linux https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/virtual-ma...), I see: A2 - 2 Cores, 3.5GB, 40GB: $70 A2 - 2 Cores, 3.5GB, 135GB: $89 D1 - 1 Core, 3.5GB, 50GB: $104 D2 - 2 Cores, 7GB, 100GB: $115 D2V2 - 2 Cores, 7GB, 100GB: $127 Thus, I'm not sure which one you're referring to. You seem to be referring to one with 7GB RAM, which seems not to be a very direct comparison.

Zenst 11y ago
Had look and I get totaly different pricing (higher mostly), Central US/USD prices and couple examples: INSTANCE CORES RAM DISK SIZES PRICE D1 1 3.5 GB 50 GB $0.14/hr (~$104/mo) D2 2 7 GB 100 GB $0.28/hr (~$208/mo) So D1 same and yet D2 twice the price! A2 is $134 for same setup. Note they mention discounts for 12 months prepaid, though not exciting and talking 5% discount and you have to be spending $6000 to qualify for that over the 12 month period. Certainly seems, use of proxies and your location effect what you are quoted and I'm located near London and used the Opera browser, so who knows. Certainly indicates that shopping around, even if your hitting the same price page, is prudent.
- tyingq 11y ago
  You're looking at Windows instances. Click the linux tab.
  - Zenst 11y ago
    You are absolutely right, thank you for clearing that up and indeed I get same prices as you now, accept upon D1 which is (~$57/mo)with D2 - same as you get ~$115/mo . The V2 flavours at $63 and £127 a month (D1 and D2 respectively).
lobster_johnson 11y ago
You could calculate price per (RAM, CPU, disk) metric separately, at least.