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The only datapoint I can give is that moving from AWS to GCP reduced our bill by 2/3rds. That isn't a 1 to 1 comparison though as we did a re-platforming at the
by cbushko 5y ago
The only datapoint I can give is that moving from AWS to GCP reduced our bill by 2/3rds. That isn't a 1 to 1 comparison though as we did a re-platforming at the same time.
Moving from AWS ECS to GCP Kubernetes was probably the biggest money saver. It reduced the amount of compute needed by a huge amount. Being able to safely use pre-emptive VMs in Kubernetes is also leads to huge savings.
I am sure that if we used Kubernetes in AWS it would have had a similar cost reduction.
- secondcoming 5y agoJust pointing out that you don't need to use Kubernetes to avail of spot/preemptible savings. Our regions are configured to have a Load Balancer serve several Instance Groups, one of which is preemptibles
- toomanybeersies 5y agoI'm a big fan of preemptible instances on GCP. They're much easier to set up than AWS spot instances, all you need to do is set `preemptible = true` and bam you've saved 80% on compute costs. The consistent pricing is also very convenient. At my old job we ran out CI infra on preemptible instances. It cost basically nothing to run, and because the instances were cycled frequently due to scaling, we hardly ever had jobs fail because of an instance being terminated mid-run (not that it was a problem when they did, they'd just automatically get re-run).