Somewhat of a shameless plug (work at Google). While AWS has shown willingness to lower prices, they seem to have forfeited price leadership to Google Cloud.
Getting reserved instance correct always feels like a form of voodoo mathematics (I want to save money but what if we scale?!).
The old light/medium/heavy was odd enough but the new no/some/full upfront is a effectively usury. You're agreeing to pay the whole thing regardless of the up front amount so the other two options are effectively a high interest loan to buy the full upfront fee.
Big +1 on that one.
Getting reserved instance correct always feels like a form of voodoo mathematics (I want to save money but what if we scale?!).
The old light/medium/heavy was odd enough but the new no/some/full upfront is a effectively usury. You're agreeing to pay the whole thing regardless of the up front amount so the other two options are effectively a high interest loan to buy the full upfront fee.