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Pricing is yet another area where Google Compute Engine is superior. Automatic sustained use discounts[1], the ability to commit long term to a certain amount of cpus and memory and get a discount without any upfront cost[2]. Extended memory[3], basically you can craft a VM instance of any size. Need just 1 cpu but 32 GB of memory, no problem.

AWS on the other hand... A labyrinth of pricing tables, spot instances, EBS optimized, enhanced networking... Complexity.

[1] - https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/sustained-use-discount...

[2] - https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/signing-up-c...

[3] - https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/05/Compute-Engine-...

parent nodesocket 9 years ago

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