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by kalkin 3750 days ago
Strange to do a whole long section on price-comparison without talking about AWS's spot instances, which are often much cheaper than the reserved instances.
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fhoffa 3750 days ago
Note that Google Cloud offers preemptible instances, up to 70% cheaper than the normal ones.

https://cloud.google.com/preemptible-vms/

It would be interesting to see Quizlet thoughts on GCP preemptible VMs vs AWS spot instances and why they think they are better (or not?), but that could be the subject of a whole different post.

(Disclaimer: I work at Google - https://twitter.com/felipehoffa)

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kalkin 3750 days ago
Interesting. I did a quick search for "GCP spot instances" and didn't find anything. I'd be interested in a comparison too!
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brianwawok 3750 days ago
True, but how do you quantify the work? Real world on AWS is

Buy X capacity reserved

Buy Y capacity spot instance

Buy Z capacity on demand to fill in the peaks

And it becomes a function of putting in more time = cheaper total bill.

GCE workflow is:

Buy the instances you need, bill will work out at the end of the month.

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