http://gigaom.com/2012/07/24/for-some-workloads-googles-cloud-cant-yet-hang-with-aws/ Wed, 19 Jun 2013 21:22:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://gigaom.com/2012/07/24/for-some-workloads-googles-cloud-cant-yet-hang-with-aws/#comment-868638 Wed, 25 Jul 2012 17:19:30 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=545923#comment-868638 That’s a fair point, although I’d argue that you can’t get much more apples-to-apples than just comparing the highest-powered instances on both clouds. Right now, Amazon just has the HPC market cornered with CCI.

]]> http://gigaom.com/2012/07/24/for-some-workloads-googles-cloud-cant-yet-hang-with-aws/#comment-868630 Wed, 25 Jul 2012 17:03:26 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=545923#comment-868630 I think calling this an apples-to-apples comparison is a bit of a stretch. The fact of the matter is that they are comparing AWS’s cluster compute instances which are designed specifically for this type of workload to GCE’s largest standard instance which is designed to fit a variety of workloads. It is a good comparison of the best possible performance you can achieve from each cloud for this type of workload, but in my opinion this is different than an apples-to-apples comparison.

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