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What is the cost reporting situation on azure and gcp? We've gone for aws because they're supposed to have good customer support, but opaque cost reporting and

by maest 7y ago

What is the cost reporting situation on azure and gcp? We've gone for aws because they're supposed to have good customer support, but opaque cost reporting and the inability to inpose spending limits is a concern. Does anyone know how azure/gcp: 1. Handle cost reporting 2. Handle spending limits (e.g. can I impose a hard spending limit per service/per user/globally?)

webpaymentsguy 7y ago
Used all 3 for complicated things, preferred AWS for better overall security/compliance support and more features. Azure is largely comparable to AWS for most shops and some services can be slightly cheaper. GCP seems to be way behind both but I'm sure lots of places could get away with using them. 1. Azure basically has comparable cost reporting to Amazon, though has a cost aggregator if you want to use both Azure and AWS. I personally thought it didn't really bring all the nice features AWS billing had into Azure very well so I'd not recommend if your AWS usage is large and varied. I found GCP to have less features than either Azure or AWS for billing. 2. None of the 3 providers have a hard spending limit feature, though Google app engine service (not GCP) let's you shut it down. Other than that, permission roles are generally the same, AWS wins slightly on features again but Azure had a slightly nicer UI. Anyways, you should do your own research on what cloud seems sane to you, and not let randos on HN make your business decisions.
alasdair_ 7y ago
One thing that bit me was that GCP spending limits could only be updated on a 24 hour timer (so one full day before they kicked in) This is absolutely terrible if you have a spike in legitimate traffic and try to increase the limit and you lose all that “front page of hn traffic” forever because your supposedly scalable system didnt scale. I have no idea if they have fixed that issue yet but I doubt it.
WrtCdEvrydy 7y ago
1) Azure's cost reporting is pretty good 2) No cloud has proper spending limits (aside from barebone compute like linode). It works on your bill continuing to get pricier as their overall multitenant costs come down.

by maest 7y ago

webpaymentsguy 7y ago

Used all 3 for complicated things, preferred AWS for better overall security/compliance support and more features. Azure is largely comparable to AWS for most shops and some services can be slightly cheaper. GCP seems to be way behind both but I'm sure lots of places could get away with using them. 1. Azure basically has comparable cost reporting to Amazon, though has a cost aggregator if you want to use both Azure and AWS. I personally thought it didn't really bring all the nice features AWS billing had into Azure very well so I'd not recommend if your AWS usage is large and varied. I found GCP to have less features than either Azure or AWS for billing. 2. None of the 3 providers have a hard spending limit feature, though Google app engine service (not GCP) let's you shut it down. Other than that, permission roles are generally the same, AWS wins slightly on features again but Azure had a slightly nicer UI. Anyways, you should do your own research on what cloud seems sane to you, and not let randos on HN make your business decisions.

alasdair_ 7y ago

One thing that bit me was that GCP spending limits could only be updated on a 24 hour timer (so one full day before they kicked in) This is absolutely terrible if you have a spike in legitimate traffic and try to increase the limit and you lose all that “front page of hn traffic” forever because your supposedly scalable system didnt scale. I have no idea if they have fixed that issue yet but I doubt it.

WrtCdEvrydy 7y ago

1) Azure's cost reporting is pretty good 2) No cloud has proper spending limits (aside from barebone compute like linode). It works on your bill continuing to get pricier as their overall multitenant costs come down.