Same %, still amazon might beat GCE when it comes to features.
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/120313-google-compute-...
I am not going to move from EC2 with this prices and with this features and community. I hope they are going to make it more appealing soon :)
For those planning "wow, I can use the google datacenters, to scale to such level", first check this part:
https://developers.google.com/compute/docs/resource-quotas
Just in case.
About time! I'm not entirely sure what GCE is, but if it means Google puts more effort into appengine I'm all for it. Besides, AWS needs a valid competitor that it has no chance of buying.
> GCE "is a long-term strategic bet for the company," said Brian Goldfarb, Google's head of cloud platform marketing, adding that "we have an incredibly high bar for what general availability means."
and
> The company has established a service level agreement (SLA) where it guarantees GCE to be available 99.95% of the time
Doesn't seem to match. (99.95% is a really high bar? 20 minutes per month? from Google?! )
[EDIT] Misunderstanding of the vocabulary on my part, read further down.
Expensive, and good luck getting client trust back after what they did with App Engine.
It would be really cool if they provide a free trial account as Amazon though.
So now might be as good a time as any to ask: any happy GCE-using EC2 refugees that have tools/tips to share after making the jump?
I saw someone tried to add GCE support to boto a while back [1], but after some discussion it seems there was a decision not to support it [2]. (I don't know enough about the platform differences to say whether it make sense..)
[1] https://github.com/boto/boto/pull/1159
[2] https://groups.google.com/d/msg/boto-dev/fNM7AFM1Ors/x-nf_MS...