<story><title>Google Cloud is 50% cheaper than AWS</title><url>https://thehftguy.wordpress.com/2016/11/18/google-cloud-is-50-cheaper-than-aws/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vgt</author><text>I would like to hear what platform bits of AWS that you find lacking in Google Cloud. Google&amp;#x27;s ecosystem of fully managed services is very rich broad and compelling, and in many ways far ahead of competition.
(work on Google Cloud but don&amp;#x27;t get paid to post here)</text></item><item><author>jbyers</author><text>&amp;quot;The numbers given in this article do not account for any AWS reservation.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;While I agree that Google&amp;#x27;s pricing model is superior, the author&amp;#x27;s position on reserved instances accounts for ~40% of the cost difference.&lt;p&gt;In a drag race between instances AWS tends to lose. If you value the enormous feature and service surface-area that AWS provides it&amp;#x27;s a different story. Either way we win; both companies will engage in a brutal price and feature war for many years to come.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Fiahil</author><text>&amp;gt; I would like to hear what platform bits of AWS that you find lacking in Google Cloud.&lt;p&gt;RDS instances with Postgresql.</text></comment>
<story><title>Google Cloud is 50% cheaper than AWS</title><url>https://thehftguy.wordpress.com/2016/11/18/google-cloud-is-50-cheaper-than-aws/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vgt</author><text>I would like to hear what platform bits of AWS that you find lacking in Google Cloud. Google&amp;#x27;s ecosystem of fully managed services is very rich broad and compelling, and in many ways far ahead of competition.
(work on Google Cloud but don&amp;#x27;t get paid to post here)</text></item><item><author>jbyers</author><text>&amp;quot;The numbers given in this article do not account for any AWS reservation.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;While I agree that Google&amp;#x27;s pricing model is superior, the author&amp;#x27;s position on reserved instances accounts for ~40% of the cost difference.&lt;p&gt;In a drag race between instances AWS tends to lose. If you value the enormous feature and service surface-area that AWS provides it&amp;#x27;s a different story. Either way we win; both companies will engage in a brutal price and feature war for many years to come.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fragsworth</author><text>Does Google have an equivalent for DynamoDB and Lambda? If so, I might consider switching.</text></comment>