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It seems entirely fair to me, but the term "reliability" has a few different angles. This time it's not about working or not working, but the ability to auto-sc

• endisneigh 4y ago
  unless you're willing to burn $150 a quarter doing this exact assessment, it tells you nothing other than the data center conditions at the time of running. it would be like doing this in us-central1 when us-central1 is down for one provider, and not another, resulting in increased latency, and saying how much faster one is than the other. unlike say a throughput test or similar, neither of these services promise particular cold-starts, and so the numbers here cannot be contexutalized against any metric given by either company and so are only useful in the sense that they can be compared, but since there are no guarantees the positions could switch anytime. that's why I like comparisons between serverless functions where there are pretty explicit SLAs and what not given by each company for you to compare against, as well as one another.
  • daneel_w 4y ago
    Given the stark contrast and that the pattern was identical every day over a two-week course, it tells me we're observing a fundamental systemic difference between GCP and AWS - and I think that's all the author really wanted to point out. I would not be surprised if the results are replicable three months from now.