By the Numbers: How Google Compute Engine Stacks Up To Amazon EC2 76
vu1986 writes "Google launched its EC2 rival, Google Compute Engine, last June, it set some high expectations. Sebastian Standil's team at Scalr put the cloud infrastructure service through its paces — and were pleasantly surprised at what they found. A note about our data: The benchmarks run to collect the data presented here were taken twice a day, over four days, then averaged. When a high variance was observed, we took note of it and present it here as intervals for which 80 percent of observed data points fall into."
A non techy benefit of Amazon (Score:5, Funny)
Re:A non techy benefit of Amazon (Score:5, Funny)
Just when you start relying on it, Amazon won't shut it down.
Not intentionally, anyway.
Re:8 samples is hardly useful (Score:5, Funny)