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by _delirium 3756 days ago
I'm not sure, but that's why I would want to read a comparison to find out! For example, if their Linux VMs had a price/performance advantage in some category (networking, CPU, whatever), that would be interesting information to know. Or if the tools were better/worse.
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boulos 3756 days ago
I believe GCE has a price/performance advantage in basically all categories against both AWS and Azure (one wrinkle is we don't offer small slices of local SSD, instead pushing people to either our 375 GiB per unit local SSD or our Persistent Disk SSD product). For example:

https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/01/Happy-New-Year-...

As jsolson mentions elsewhere, we run PerfKit and compare ourselves all the time (both on raw performance and price/performance).

Disclosure: I work on Compute Engine.

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brianwawok 3756 days ago
That was on conclusion as well. I launched my baby startup on Digital Ocean and moved to GCE when I needed to do things like floating IPs (before DO had such a thing).

Overall GCE has worked well. I did have trouble fighting the beta logging agent (used 300+ MB of ram and 5% of my CPU when under no load), but logging is in beta so I guess I can't complain :)

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