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0 pointsbrianwawok9y ago0 comments

And in general, the comparable GCE offerings are LIGHTYEARS ahead in performance.

Compare instance launch times. Compare internal network performance.

I just cannot fathom using AWS for a new project. I guess if you MUST have some of the SAAS apps built on top of AWS and don't want to consider how you would run the same thing on GCE... but I think GCE would be a fantastic default cloud for 90% of people.

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teh9y ago

Do you have benchmarks on that? Not my experience for network speeds and CPU of individual machines but it's been 6 months since I checked.

obulpathi9y ago

Google Network and SSDs offer an order of magnitude more performance / price. Disks and Storage are about 2 times fast. Booting is 5 times fast.

Not just the performance, all Google Cloud services are fully managed (Think of S3 and Lambda on AWS). No servers! On AWS, only a couple of services are fully managed. Rest of them are a thin layer on top of EC2. If AWS is DevOps, Google Cloud is NoOps.

zbjornson9y ago

Some of my benchmarks for networking and storage (block and object) are in the middle of this deck:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1B1jvWWh0ACaDv4ryEzLl...

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