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TL;DR: New Standard tier level is hot potato routing while existing (now called Premium) tier is cold potato routing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot-potato_
by idorosen 9y ago
TL;DR: New Standard tier level is hot potato routing while existing (now called Premium) tier is cold potato routing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot-potato_and_cold-potato_routing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot-potato_and_cold-potato_rou...
- zeroxfe 9y agoAlso Standard tier is 24 - 33% cheaper than premium.
- panarky 9y agoOther cloud providers like AWS and Azure use hot-potato routing which has lower performance and reliability than GCP's current network offering. So Google is offering a new "standard tier" equivalent to AWS and Azure, and undercutting both of them on network egress costs by a small amount. Network egress costs are still astronomical.
- Terretta 9y agoIn late 90s, we configured AboveNet as the preferred backbone for the world’s largest Windows Media streaming network thanks to “cold potato routing” providing such a competitive advantage for broadband video. This allowed us to build out video distribution hubs rather than “edges”, giving a cost of service a fraction of competitors’. I’m surprised it took two decades to see this network policy choice productized for mass tech market.