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By the Numbers: How Google Compute Engine Stacks Up To Amazon EC2

Posted by samzenpus on from the head-to-head dept.

vu1986 writes "Google launched its EC2 rival, Google Compute Engine, last June, it set some high expectations. Sebastian Standil's team at Scalr put the cloud infrastructure service through its paces — and were pleasantly surprised at what they found. A note about our data: The benchmarks run to collect the data presented here were taken twice a day, over four days, then averaged. When a high variance was observed, we took note of it and present it here as intervals for which 80 percent of observed data points fall into."

4 of 76 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Limited preview by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    There much be proofreading before hitting submit.

  2. Re:What about privacy? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    If you think that Google would try to (or even be contractually able to) mine data from their customers like this, you're either ridiculously paranoid or an anti-Google shill. Maybe both.

  3. Re:A non techy benefit of Amazon by Jason+Earl · · Score: 1, Informative

    Clearly you are not a Postini customer.

  4. Re:A non techy benefit of Amazon by whydna · · Score: 4, Informative

    They spoke at re:Invent and mentioned that Amazon.com has been hosted on EC2 for a number of years: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f45Uo5rw6YY