I work on GCE — when I read that post I also thought the 50% was a bit generous, but your other comment made me curious. I ran some numbers and posted a reply o

I work on GCE — when I read that post I also thought the 50% was a bit generous, but your other comment made me curious. I ran some numbers and posted a reply over there: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13078157 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13078157 tl; dr: Even matching instance types more closely, for on-demand pricing the 50% number held up remarkably well, although I'm worried that I got something wrong with my math on provisioned IOPS pricing, as a 10x difference seems unbelievably high.