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In addition to that, those instances might be deployed for short time were much power at once is needed and powered off after that. In that case the cloud might
by dna_polymerase 9y ago
In addition to that, those instances might be deployed for short time were much power at once is needed and powered off after that. In that case the cloud might even be cheaper as Google offers pricing by Minute (or was it second now?) whereas most bare metal providers bill by the month.
- ChrisAntaki 9y agoPer second, with a one minute minimum [1]. [1] https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/09/extending-per-second-billing-in-google.html https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/09/extending-per-s...
- cliffy 9y ago"Most bare metal providers bill by the month." Maybe you mean dedicated hosting providers? Any provider letting you spin up bare-metal through an API almost certainly bills at much finer grain than monthly, although they may quote monthly prices to make it easier for customers to assess cost.