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> no need to purchase reserved instances

GCE offered committed use discounts for quite some time (note: completely different from sustained use discount that is automatic), by ignoring this discount tier, the results from this post look significantly worse

The idea that "developer experience" is paramount is the entire reason why there is an entire sub-industry of vendors dedicated to cost optimization, following in the wake of choices made with completely the wrong business priorities in mind

[yovagoyu]

AWS has cheaper discounted instances though too.