Google Cloud has made several big efforts to make cloud pricing cheaper, simpler, and more flexible for its customers: - List Prices are cheaper [-1] - Google

Google Cloud has made several big efforts to make cloud pricing cheaper, simpler, and more flexible for its customers: - List Prices are cheaper [-1] - Google Sustained Use Discounts are like RIs but applied automatically and without commitments (up to 30% off if you use a VM for 100% of a month) [0] - Preemptible VMs are a fixed 70-80% off, rather than the uncertain and highly variable Spot Instance Market [1] - Custom Machine Types offer you the ability to set your own CPU/RAM [2] - Both Google and Microsoft offer per-minute pricing - VM sizing recommendations will give you a message when you can save money[3] In the end, Google Cloud can be 40% cheaper than AWS[4] [-1] https://cloud.google.com/compute/pricing https://cloud.google.com/compute/pricing [0] https://cloud.google.com/compute/pricing#sustained_use https://cloud.google.com/compute/pricing#sustained_use [1] https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/preemptible https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/preemptible [2] https://cloud.google.com/custom-machine-types/ https://cloud.google.com/custom-machine-types/ [3] https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/09/six-Google-Cloud-Platform-features-that-can-save-you-time-and-money.html https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/09/six-Google-Clou... [4] http://www.zdnet.com/article/what-google-says-to-aws-price-cuts-our-cloud-is-still-way-cheaper/ http://www.zdnet.com/article/what-google-says-to-aws-price-c... (disc: work @ Google Cloud)