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Also what is the granularity? Right now on AWS you have to pay for the full hour even if you use it for 5 minutes. A per minute granularity can make Google's o
by superasn 5y ago
Also what is the granularity? Right now on AWS you have to pay for the full hour even if you use it for 5 minutes.
A per minute granularity can make Google's offering more enticing for a lot of users.
- ur-whale 5y ago>Also what is the granularity? Don't have an authoritative answer, sorry, but granularity is an area where Google has historically been better than the competition.
- tecleandor 5y agoOn AWS you only pay for full hours if you're using RHEL or Suse. Any other Linux distro or Windows pay by seconds: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/spot-interruptions.html#billing-for-interrupted-spot-instances https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/spot-int... On GCP seems like you pay per seconds, but if you use a Premium OS and GCP stops your instance, you would pay for the premium OS pricing anyway: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/spot#spot-with-premium-os https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/spot#spot-wi...
- superasn 5y agoThank you this is great news for me. I always assumed it was by the hour, or maybe it was and they changed it and I missed the announcement. Regardless this is great news for me!