Google Cloud is 50% cheaper than AWS
I work at AWS and I have questions for the author about this post:<p>TL;DR -- I urge all readers to take this post with a grain&#x2F;boulder of salt: The author is anonymous, prone to hyperbole and error, and makes multiple unverified claims. I&#x27;m sure he&#x27;s a nice guy&#x2F;girl and if we met in real life I&#x27;d be happy to converse over a beer -- but I find the language and misinformation in the post overly polemic and disingenuous. If this stuff interests you guys tune into the reinvent livestream next week: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;reinvent.awsevents.com&#x2F;live-streaming&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;reinvent.awsevents.com&#x2F;live-streaming&#x2F;</a><p>All numbers are from EU-WEST-1
(Does anyone know why GCE doesn&#x27;t have a eu-west-1a? only b,c,d? I&#x27;d be curious to know the story there... not trolling -- just curious.)<p>Graph 2:
c4.large has 2 CPUs... n1-standard-1 has 1... comparison on price is strange? Your point below about optimizing for manageability doesn&#x27;t really make sense to me as manageability would stem from config&#x2F;deploy&#x2F;etc. -- not from instance type? Perhaps your language isn&#x27;t clear. You&#x27;re anonymous but I&#x27;m guessing english is a second language for you (judging from sentences in post) so it&#x27;s possible we&#x27;re missing your point there. Could you clarify please?<p>&gt;&quot;an ancient virtualization technology&quot; source? details? KVM came out in 2007. Xen came out in 2003. I don&#x27;t consider either of those dates particularly ancient but whatever it&#x27;s your post, use the language you want.<p>Graph 3:
A c4.4xlarge has 16 CPUs, and 30 gigs of RAM. An n1-highcpu-4 has 4 CPUs and &lt;4 gigs of RAM. Comparing the two on price is disingenuous. Your claims that these are the &quot;production instances&quot; don&#x27;t make sense to me.<p>&gt;Network Heavy:
So this is a test between two t2.micros in different AZs: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;s3.amazonaws.com&#x2F;ranman-code&#x2F;2016-11-20+00.58.23.gif" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;s3.amazonaws.com&#x2F;ranman-code&#x2F;2016-11-20+00.58.23.gif</a><p>It shows 1gbps... I ran it literally a minute ago...<p>So that&#x27;s 1gbit... Do you mean inbound from public internet or outbound to public internet?
I created an n1-highcpu-4 and had it talk to a c4.xlarge at 1gpbs in (both in eu-west) so your claim that you need a c4.4xlarge for 1gbps seems dubious.<p>Test Complete. Summary Results:
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bandwidth       Retr
[  4]   0.00-60.00  sec  7.40 GBytes  1.06 Gbits&#x2F;sec  1297597             sender
[  4]   0.00-60.00  sec  7.40 GBytes  1.06 Gbits&#x2F;sec                  receiver<p>It actually seems like Google&#x27;s network was the limiting factor there because when I ran a similar test on a 10gpbs instance I couldn&#x27;t get faster than 1gpbs. Which is fine because that&#x27;s what&#x27;s advertised -- just pointing out that the need for a c4.4xlarge is wrong. On a c4.large I got 900mbps.<p>&gt;C4&#x2F;m4&#x2F;r3 have a hard cap at 220 mbits<p>This one is just false. What am I missing here? Where did you get this info? From eu-west-1 to us-east-1 I get faster than that using public routes and t2.micros. Internally across availability zones I get <i></i>much<i></i> faster than that.<p>Local SSD #s:
Use PIOPS volumes, tunable size, lower cost, can attach to any instance type. Also consider the numerous other instance types that offer ephemeral SSDs.<p>&gt;It is quite flexible. For instance, we could recreate any instance from AWS on Google Cloud.
I don&#x27;t think you mean <i>any</i> instance... but ok sure!<p>&gt;Amazon does everything wrong, and Google does everything right, A message by an employee from Amazon than Google, not directly relevant but still a good read.<p>^ I don&#x27;t think you read the above post when listing it as a reference. The title is ironic. Steve Yegge quit Google. Famously... on stage... He also goes on to say that Google can&#x27;t do platforms. I&#x27;m sure that&#x27;s changed in the past few years though.<p>In the end I&#x27;m super excited about both AWS and GCP they both have awesome products. I encourage people to continue researching and writing posts around these topics. It&#x27;s hard to not take some of the criticisms personally when you&#x27;re passionate and invested in your work (at least it is for me). I&#x27;ve got a google employee DM-ing on twitter calling me &quot;petulant child&quot; among other things. We don&#x27;t need that. It&#x27;s not helpful for our companies and it&#x27;s not helpful for our customers.<p>I&#x27;ll encourage everyone to tune in to the reinvent livestream on the 29th, 30th, 1st: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;reinvent.awsevents.com&#x2F;live-streaming&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;reinvent.awsevents.com&#x2F;live-streaming&#x2F;</a>