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Google has everything. See sustained use and committed used discounts. https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/sustained-use-discounts https://cloud.google.com/c

• _wmd 9y ago
  Did you even read what I wrote? They offer neither single/dedicated placement, capacity reservation (nor for that matter arch-specific capacity reservation). Meanwhile thanks for those links - I didn't realize Google, despite having such a youthful billing system already has the mess that is Instance Size Flexibility, they just call it "inferred instance sizes" instead, nor did I realize their discounting scheme is in fact _more complex_ - committed use discounts are mutually exclusive to sustained use discounts. That's even harder to model upfront than AWS' offering!
  • TheIronYuppie 9y ago
    Disclosure: I work at Google on Google Cloud What kind of hardware architecture do you want? You can reserve CPU type easily (https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/cpu-platforms https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/cpu-platforms), including if you need it to be "Anything newer than <x>". Also, sustained use discounts AUTOMATICALLY discount you (including binpacking a bunch of machine, so let's say you ran 4 machines for 7 days at the beginning of the month, you'd get the discount of running 1 machine for 28 days).