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Strange to do a whole long section on price-comparison without talking about AWS's spot instances, which are often much cheaper than the reserved instances.
by kalkin 11y ago
Strange to do a whole long section on price-comparison without talking about AWS's spot instances, which are often much cheaper than the reserved instances.
- brianwawok 11y agoTrue, but how do you quantify the work? Real world on AWS is Buy X capacity reserved Buy Y capacity spot instance Buy Z capacity on demand to fill in the peaks And it becomes a function of putting in more time = cheaper total bill. GCE workflow is: Buy the instances you need, bill will work out at the end of the month.
- fhoffa 11y agoNote that Google Cloud offers preemptible instances, up to 70% cheaper than the normal ones. https://cloud.google.com/preemptible-vms/ https://cloud.google.com/preemptible-vms/ It would be interesting to see Quizlet thoughts on GCP preemptible VMs vs AWS spot instances and why they think they are better (or not?), but that could be the subject of a whole different post. (Disclaimer: I work at Google - https://twitter.com/felipehoffa https://twitter.com/felipehoffa)
- kalkin 11y agoInteresting. I did a quick search for "GCP spot instances" and didn't find anything. I'd be interested in a comparison too!