[vgt]

Have you had a chance to look at Google's Preemptible VMs? They're a fixed 70-80% off of list price.

Another point is, Google's VMs are generic CPU/RAM combinations. You don't need "network optimized VMs" or "storage optimized VMs" - you simply get those things on any VM. This makes the "excess instance supply" market much more fluid and simplifies folks' lives.

Happy to discuss further!

(work at GCP)

[dimfeld]

Google's sustained use discounts for standard (non-preemptible) VMs are a huge win as well. No need to predict usage and reserve instance time in advance; the discount is simply applied progressively as you use a particular instance type more during a month.

[xiaomai]

That's nice, I'm using azure for a windows vm and it's been super frustrating trying to get reasonable performance. (RAM/CPU/etc. is all great but the standard IO is so slow it's basically unusable (i'm maxing out at 10M/s (I think due to iops limitiations).

[kuschku]

Why is GCP (just like AWS and Azure) still 5 times more expensive than comparable dedicated cloud services from competitors?

I can get this https://www.hetzner.de/us/hosting/produkte_rootserver/ex40 in a few hours, with more performance than anything you offer for even 5 times the price. Same at most other dedicated hosters.

Do you even ever intend to be price competitive?