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\"Google_AWS_versus_screen\"When Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced yet another price reduction<\/a> for some of its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances last week, many viewed the cuts as just another shot fired in the long and bloody price war over the cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) market that has raged between AWS, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and Microsoft\u2019s \u00a0PaaS-ish Azure.<\/p>\n

Google, however, says the war is over. And they\u2019re claiming victory.<\/p>\n

After AWS delivered the price cuts last week (their 51st<\/sup> overall), which trimmed five percent off C4, M4, and R3 reserved instances, on-demand instances and dedicated hosts running Linux across regions in the US, Asia Pacific, and Europe, Google responded with a \u00a0simple statement: \u201cpay less, compute more.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a blog post<\/a> published last Friday, Miles Ward, Global Head of Solutions, Google Cloud Platform, reassures Google Cloud users who may have been \u201clooking at recent announcements and wondering\u201d that GCP is \u201cstill the price\/performance leader in public cloud,\u201d with prices \u201canywhere from 15-41% less expensive than AWS for compute resources,\u201d even after their latest reduction.<\/p>\n

Ward highlighted several examples where Google\u2019s pricing is cheaper than AWS. First, \u00a0M4 “Standard” would cost $87.60 a month while GCP\u2019s Customer 2 core, 8gb instances comes in at $54.82, second, AWS C4 “HighCPU” costs $76.65 a month compared to GCP\u2019s Customer 2 core, 3.75gb offering at $44.66 per month, and finally, AWS\u2019s R3 \u201cHighMem\u201d instances cost $121.18 a month, while GCP\u2019s n1-standard-4 comes in at $102.40.<\/p>\n

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Google’s Cost Comparison Chart<\/p><\/div>\n

All told, GCP customers save an average of nearly 32% over AWS customers, according to Google\u2019s math.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile price cuts sound appealing on the surface, when you unpack the specifics of Amazon\u2019s pricing model, it can be an unpleasant surprise. We often hear from customers who are locked into contracts and aren\u2019t eligible for the new rates, or are stuck with instances that no longer fit their needs,\u201d said Ward.<\/p>\n

No response from AWS so far, though as the market leaders<\/a> in cloud IaaS, they may just let the numbers speak for them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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