Google has released "Committed Use Discounts", an RI competitor, which appears to be ~35% cheaper than RIs on average, according to Rightscale [0]. I also wrot

Google has released "Committed Use Discounts", an RI competitor, which appears to be ~35% cheaper than RIs on average, according to Rightscale [0]. I also wrote an article discussing why "Committed Use Discounts" is a much bigger deal than just a "price model" at [1]. It'd be great for "thefht" guy to do the comparison, but data's already out there. (work at Google Cloud) [0] http://www.rightscale.com/blog/cloud-cost-analysis/aws-reserved-instances-vs-google-committed-use-discounts http://www.rightscale.com/blog/cloud-cost-analysis/aws-reser... [1] https://hackernoon.com/why-googles-answer-to-aws-reseved-instances-is-a-big-deal-4b9b36d8e631#.7p9z3grdh https://hackernoon.com/why-googles-answer-to-aws-reseved-ins...