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AWS VS Google Cloud-Platform Pricing Pricing

I want to host my site (PHP / MySQL) on a cloud platform. Of course, my site is new, and I don’t think there will be too much traffic. So, I tried to compare the lowest cloud service configuration costs between GCP and AWS. The lowest configuration cost according to the Google Cloud Platform Price Calculator is as follows:

  • Google Compute Engine (f1-micro): $ 4.09
  • Google Cloud SQL (instance D0): $ 11.30
  • Datastore (1GB): $ 0.18
  • Total : $ 15.57 (For more details, see this link: https://goo.gl/wJZikT )

Meanwhile, the lowest configuration cost according to AWS Price Calculator :

  • Amazon EC2 (t1.micro): $ 14.64
  • Amazon RDS (db.t1.micro with 1 GB of memory): $ 18.42
  • Amazon S3: $ 0.11
  • Total : $ 33.17

(For more details see the link http://goo.gl/Pe7dFt )

My question is: how can it be that there is a big difference in the cost of cloud services between the Google cloud platform and AWS? Are there any errors in my assessment? If so, please share with me a link to configure the minimum configuration on AWS ...

Thanks.

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2 main reasons for the difference:

  • Google micro VM uses a common core, not a separate one. Kernels are apparently the most expensive part of a virtual machine if you look at prices for both AWS and GCE
  • Google provides them with a permanent discount on monthly use (an effective discount of 30% per month), while Amazon forces you to make a prepayment for a year to get any discount.

Both of the above factors allow you to have a lower cost for the Google virtual machine.

I tried virtual machines on GCE with shared cores and had no problems. If you use Google monitoring, you can actually track how much the core core is affecting you using a processor theft rate. This article from stackdriver explains this very well.

Side note: stackdriver has already been acquired by Google and is used by Google to monitor virtual machines.

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