Pricing is yet another area where Google Compute Engine is superior. Automatic sustained use discounts[1], the ability to commit long term to a certain amount of cpus and memory and get a discount without any upfront cost[2]. Extended memory[3], basically you can craft a VM instance of any size. Need just 1 cpu but 32 GB of memory, no problem.<p>AWS on the other hand... A labyrinth of pricing tables, spot instances, EBS optimized, enhanced networking... Complexity.<p>[1] - <a href="https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/sustained-use-discounts" rel="nofollow">https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/sustained-use-discount...</a><p>[2] - <a href="https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/signing-up-committed-use-discounts" rel="nofollow">https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/signing-up-c...</a><p>[3] - <a href="https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/05/Compute-Engine-updates-bring-Skylake-GA-Extended-Memory-and-more-VM-flexibility.html" rel="nofollow">https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/05/Compute-Engine-...</a>
I've built this page since I often just want to pick a spot instance type that gives me biggest bang for the buck. Amazon's own pricing page is still very confusing, and ec2instances.info is great but it is a static website and adding spot prices there is nontrivial.<p>I've also fixed a few minor things that annoyed me, such as correct sorting by instance type (so that r3.16x goes after r3.4x) and added a mode to display spot savings vs on-demand.<p>Would appreciate any feedback!
Forgive me for a dumb question from someone who doesn't do cloud computing currently : the units are really $/GB/time period, yes? What is the time period? One hour? day? month?