GCE is less expensive for compute than AWS, period, RI's or no RI's. Disclosure: I'm a cloud pricing geek among other things working at Google Cloud Platform a

GCE is less expensive for compute than AWS, period, RI's or no RI's. Disclosure: I'm a cloud pricing geek among other things working at Google Cloud Platform and I did substantial analysis on this, published here: https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2015/01/understanding-cloud-pricing.html https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2015/01/understanding-c... There's also a handy-dandy TCO calculator that further explores these dynamics here: https://cloud.google.com/pricing/tco https://cloud.google.com/pricing/tco Let me know if any other details would be useful!