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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."

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  1. A non techy benefit of Amazon by ethicalcannibal · · Score: 5, Funny

    Just when you start relying on it, Amazon won't shut it down.

    1. Re:A non techy benefit of Amazon by mybecq · · Score: 5, Funny

      Just when you start relying on it, Amazon won't shut it down.

      Not intentionally, anyway.

    2. Re:A non techy benefit of Amazon by Junta · · Score: 5, Insightful

      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.

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    3. Re:A non techy benefit of Amazon by thrillseeker · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Do you think AWS will continue if it's eventually found to be nonprofitable?

  2. Limited preview by hawguy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

  3. Re:What about privacy? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    If you think Google (or any company) wouldn't try to monetize every bit of data that they get their hands on, you're ridiculously naive.

  4. Re:8 samples is hardly useful by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.