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Spending on GCP is more predictable than on AWS. Also the general behavior is more predictable. For instance all pre-emptible instances are terminated in 24 hou
by doh 10y ago
Spending on GCP is more predictable than on AWS. Also the general behavior is more predictable. For instance all pre-emptible instances are terminated in 24 hours. On AWS based on when they need the resources.
I believe that whatever GCP does, does better. Faster network, faster spinning and turning off servers, simpler quotas, etc. GCP doesn't offer that many services as AWS and most of those are not very compatible with Apache tools (although they're doing their best, e.g. BigTable looks like Hbase from outside).
In our case, we're running ~28,000 servers on GCE and utilizing many services, especially PubSub, BigQuery, etc. The price we're paying for our setup is roughly 1/4 of a similar setup on AWS.
- nugator 10y agoHoly cow, 28 000 servers, can you give us a clue to what you need so many servers for?
- doh 10y agoWe're processing videos, a lot of them. Roughly 34PB worth of data every month. Additionally we're running our search engine at top of it with couple of other services. You can check what we're up to here https://pex.com https://pex.com
- nugator 10y agoCool, thanks for the info!
- EnigmaticLion 10y agoThat landing page is a whopping 9MB [1]. Please optimize it for users with slow internet like me. [1] https://www.webpagetest.org/result/170225_RN_1K80/ https://www.webpagetest.org/result/170225_RN_1K80/
- doh 10y agoI apologize. We need to pay more attention to the actual website
- luhn 10y ago> For instance all pre-emptible instances are terminated in 24 hours. On AWS based on when they need the resources. Uhh, Google will terminate preemptible instances whenever they need the resources as well. Hence the name, "preemptible." https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/preemptible https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/preemptible
- doh 10y agoTrue. What I meant is that the servers are going to be terminated in 24 hours, even if they don't need the resources atm. AWS doesn't terminate them up until they don't need them. Also I personally find much easier to understand is the pricing. It's very consistent and simple. Preemptible servers are discounted by 80% from the regular ones. On AWS the price changes, also they only offer older generations while GCE offers any type at the same discount.