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By the Numbers: How Google Compute Engine Stacks Up To Amazon EC2
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."
You mean a cloud service in "limited preview" is much faster than a cloud server open to the public and heavily used?
There much be some fancy engineering behind the scenes to make a lightly used service run faster than a heavily used one.
I want to see the benchmarks after GCE is open to the public.
google is a company. Companies don't really intrinsicaly about value provided to users as a rule. They care about the revenue they can get from their user activity. Reader porvides value, but Google seemingly doesn't see it as a revenue stream.
Google isn't doing things out of the goodness of their hearts. A lot of companies give that impression as they ramp up, but inevitably a company will show it's capitalist nature, fail as a business, or both.
XML is like violence. If it doesn't solve the problem, use more.
Why the outright dismissal? You can show with high confidence that elephants are heavier than ants with 8 samples, so 8 samples is certainly sufficient in some situations -- you have to look at the specifics.
Do you think AWS will continue if it's eventually found to be nonprofitable?