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I still don't like Google benefits from all these opensource projects and having at the same time an extremely non transparant pricing models which can change a

I still don't like Google benefits from all these opensource projects and having at the same time an extremely non transparant pricing models which can change anytime. Plus the fact that they have shady ways of adding your business to their vendor lock in trickery, is reason enough that I would never use gcp for our businesses.

cdbattags 8y ago
I wish these cloud providers would "open source" their pricing models. I know some people were probably abusing the hell out of the matrix api but the price hike is quite insane tbh. Maybe this sounds dumb but it's for this reason that I go with Digital Ocean for my personal stuff. For example, something like: compute time + availability + hardware + ? At least with lambdas you can average out time through individual function blocks and scope it to hopefully know what pieces of the users code are the most intensive. Maybe lambda get us closer to this transparency model by showing us down to the functional block what is costing what.
- jpatokal 8y ago
  The Cloud Billing Catalog API offers programmatic access to all GCP pricing. https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/gcp/introducing-cloud-billing-catalog-api-gcp-pricing-in-real-time https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/gcp/introducing-cloud... Re: pricing changes, I presume you're referring to the Distance Matrix API under Maps? That's rather separate from Cloud, but at the end of the day doing a lookup of all routes between M places and N places is going to cost Google M*N more than a single lookup. Disclaimer: I work at GCP and used to work at Maps (but before the pricing change, which I was not involved in).
mr_toad 8y ago
I’ve never found Google’s pricing non-transparent. Complex, perhaps, but all the prices that I’ve seen are public. It’s better than the old enterprise pricing model of “come play golf with us while we figure out how much we can milk you for.”

cdbattags 8y ago

I wish these cloud providers would "open source" their pricing models. I know some people were probably abusing the hell out of the matrix api but the price hike is quite insane tbh. Maybe this sounds dumb but it's for this reason that I go with Digital Ocean for my personal stuff. For example, something like: compute time + availability + hardware + ? At least with lambdas you can average out time through individual function blocks and scope it to hopefully know what pieces of the users code are the most intensive. Maybe lambda get us closer to this transparency model by showing us down to the functional block what is costing what.

jpatokal 8y ago
The Cloud Billing Catalog API offers programmatic access to all GCP pricing. https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/gcp/introducing-cloud-billing-catalog-api-gcp-pricing-in-real-time https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/gcp/introducing-cloud... Re: pricing changes, I presume you're referring to the Distance Matrix API under Maps? That's rather separate from Cloud, but at the end of the day doing a lookup of all routes between M places and N places is going to cost Google M*N more than a single lookup. Disclaimer: I work at GCP and used to work at Maps (but before the pricing change, which I was not involved in).

mr_toad 8y ago

I’ve never found Google’s pricing non-transparent. Complex, perhaps, but all the prices that I’ve seen are public. It’s better than the old enterprise pricing model of “come play golf with us while we figure out how much we can milk you for.”