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So what you're saying is Google's free "pricing" is better? In terms of paid usage, I believe AWS still has the better pricing and aggressively cuts prices for

by nacs 9y ago

So what you're saying is Google's free "pricing" is better? In terms of paid usage, I believe AWS still has the better pricing and aggressively cuts prices for existing offerings. I personally have seen S3 prices drop multiple times over the years I've used it.

devonkim 9y ago
To elaborate more, automatic discounts are really a big deal even at scale because it’s somewhat similar to AWS pricing schemes for reserved instances except it doesn’t require you to reprovision anything at all. For a lot of companies with stateful software and non-cloud native architecture (lift and shift) this helps cut significant costs while you’re growing. The default pricing mechanism in AWS for on-demand instances in particular for companies that can’t afford to rewrite their non-cloud native software with tons of state and no CI/CD infrastructure or process is a boon for AWS and even at six figure monthly spend you could certainly use a 40%+ discount on your instances.