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Google Drops Compute Engine Prices by 10 Percent
- SEJeff 12y agoAnd how long before we see price drops from both EC2 and Azure I wonder?
- flyt 12y ago24 hours.
- ahsanup 12y agoAnd by 11% too.
- vgt 12y agoNeither AWS nor Azure fully matched Google's last price cuts back in April.
- taylorbuley 12y agoLoving this price war. EC2 and Azure would be silly to think that's all it is, however. Managed VMs (w/push to deploy) cloud debugging of mobile apps.. it's not just prices but a full-on feature assault.
- joshmn 12y agoAnd Heroku will still keep their pricing the same.
- aikah 12y agoAll "PAAS" are expensive.You pay for the ease of deployment I guess.Renting a VPS or a micro instance on Amazon is cheap but you need to set up all the infrastructure which can be tricky. Fortunatly with tools like vagrant you can now get production ready images for all projects easily,which makes the deployment process easier.
- joshmn 12y agoI'm in complete agreement. I've been using Docker/Dokku to do the heavy-lifting lately. Not related, but is Vagrant more mature?
- SEJeff 12y agoFYI vagrant can manage docker, it is more of about the same in reality. https://docs.vagrantup.com/v2/provisioning/docker.html https://docs.vagrantup.com/v2/provisioning/docker.html
- Arnavion 12y agoThis [1] happened last week, although I don't see VMs on it. [1]: http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azure-pricing-updates/ http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azure-pricing-updat...
- crazy1van 12y agoInteresting to see such direct evidence of competition and markets driving prices lower.
- petervandijck 12y agoIt's more Moore's law than competition.
- diltonm 12y agoIt's interesting to note but bandwidth is going to be expensive for me compared to Linode's no charge for the first 2 TB. With Google this would come to $240 if I'm calculating it right.
- Someone1234 12y agoLinode likely over-sells their bandwidth. They also have a "fair use clause" in the terms of service that covers network consumption. Try to use the full 2 TB every single month on the $10/month tier and see how long before you get a polite email asking you to stop. Which isn't to say the $240 price tag isn't high, because it is. But they're likely matching Amazon AWS/Azure which charges a similar amount for outgoing data (2 TB is $235-255).
- opendais 12y agoNo, Linode just uses HE.net, Cogent, etc.. http://he.net/ http://he.net/ "Get BGP+IPv6+IPv4 for $0.45/Mbps!" Hurricane Electric is pretty cheap. You can hit 2TB a month on 10mbps. That is only ~$4.50 a month. There are a couple tricks with it: 1) On a $10 Linode, you aren't going to upload 2TB a month unless you are acting as a file server. Any kind of application [say, wordpress] isn't going to do it. 2) The majority of people won't max out their bandwidth usage because they are running app/database servers on Linode. They probably take a small loss on the people maxing out their 2TB a month but on average they aren't. It isn't worth the bad PR to kick a small percentage of small net loss customers. http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1292091 http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1292091 fyi, back in 2013 Cogent was doing sub $1/Mbps as well. Bandwidth from the cheap providers is cheap. The difference is AWS & Google are making their margins on what they charge for bandwidth is my guess.
- Igglyboo 12y agoI've seen Hurricane Electric before but I didn't understand what they were. Can you explain how they are different from a traditional ISP like Comcast?
- timothya 12y agoThis is expected. At the original price cut last year, I remember them saying that they will continue to cut prices as storage and CPU prices continue to drop. This is just proof of that commitment.
- Chronic29 12y agoOr proof that they need another way to acquire new users.
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- ghoul2 12y agodoes anyone know if Google Compute Engine also had to do unplanned reboots to patch the recent xen vulnerability, like AWS and Rackspace etc did? I did not hear anything about it. Does google use Xen or something homegrown? I my mind, googles' infrastructure being so different from all the others in its internal functioning is one of their primary differentiators.
- wmf 12y agoGoogle uses KVM instead of Xen. Google also has live migration which makes certain kinds of maintenance non-disruptive.
- vgt 12y agohttps://gigaom.com/2014/09/29/amazon-and-rackspace-must-be-wishing-they-had-live-migration-right-now/ https://gigaom.com/2014/09/29/amazon-and-rackspace-must-be-w...
- asb 12y agoYet still, Amazon is the only one with spot pricing. Nothing else comes close in on-demand cost to the ~$0.14 for an hour on a c3.4xlarge (16 vCPU, 30GiB RAM, 2x160GB SSD).
- kolev 12y agoHow about reserved instances? Does GCE offer equivalent of it? To us, reserved instances is giving us significant saving, well, some of eaten by the 10% surcharge from the support plan, unfortunately.
- iforapsy 12y agoGoogle Compute Engine has sustained use discounts: the longer you run an instance, the lower the price per minute that you pay. If you run an instance for a full month, you end up being charged only 70% of that instance's price. Essentially, it's like AWS's reserved instances except you don't have to plan for it ahead of time. https://cloud.google.com/compute/pricing#sustained_use https://cloud.google.com/compute/pricing#sustained_use
- kolev 12y agoThat's actually a good idea and something that removes the need to create a marketplace for reserved instances you no longer need. Thanks for the info!