Effectively using AWS Reserved Instances
Despite being a strong advocate for AWS, this is where I will say Google completely outshines Amazon.<p>Google's approach to pricing is, "do it as efficiently and quickly as possible, and we'll make sure that's the cheapest option".<p>AWS's approach is more, "help us do capacity planning and we'll let you get a price break for it.".<p>Google applies bulk discounts after the fact, AWS makes you ask for them ahead of time.