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Somewhat of a shameless plug (work at Google). While AWS has shown willingness to lower prices, they seem to have forfeited price leadership to Google Cloud. E

• koolba 10y ago
  > 3. Google's Sustained Use Discounts vs AWS RIs Big +1 on that one. Getting reserved instance correct always feels like a form of voodoo mathematics (I want to save money but what if we scale?!). The old light/medium/heavy was odd enough but the new no/some/full upfront is a effectively usury. You're agreeing to pay the whole thing regardless of the up front amount so the other two options are effectively a high interest loan to buy the full upfront fee.