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Yeah, the current price is ridiculous for: - jobs that can fit in 1.7 GB of RAM or less (Amazon's Small Instance has 1.7 GB of RAM and is about half the price
by vladd 14y ago
Yeah, the current price is ridiculous for:
- jobs that can fit in 1.7 GB of RAM or less (Amazon's Small Instance has 1.7 GB of RAM and is about half the price than the cheapest Google plan).
- reserved heavy utilization jobs (compared to Amazon Medium 3.75 GB RAM Heavy Utilization Reserved Instances, Google is 100+ USD/month versus 35.65 USD/month for Amazon).
For jobs requiring 3+ GB of RAM and non-reserved utilization, prices seem to be about the same (and CPU performance seems to be slightly better for Google).
The Product Management question is: if not the price, then what? Without a killer Amazon feature, they're just going to play catch-up.
Maybe with the Google brand? AppEngine existing customers? Access to special data-sets or APIs? Future price drops? The later might be the most likely, once they reach scale, since their data-centers are famous for being energy-efficient.
- tlogan 14y agoGoogle will promote their excellent customer service and how they provide excellent support to developers when things go wrong (i.e., their API is down). /sarcasm
- nilsbunger 14y agoThe use cases they're suggesting tend not to benefit from reserved pricing. I think they decided to launch focusing on a small segment of jobs (high-scale, intermittent) so they can get things working well, then slowly expand the use cases and pricing to make it work for other scenarios... Even Google can't instantly replicate everything Amazon has done in 5-6 years with AWS!
- nigelk 14y agoI quite like the command line tooling GCE comes with. It's a much nicer user experience.
- dagw 14y agoWithout real life performance benchmarks, price comparisons mean little. If a calculation that takes 8 hours pr data set on amazon, takes 5 hours on a similar Google instance, then Google will end up being is cheaper despite having similar pr hour prices.