At the end everything is calculated, and all companies take this into account. You think amazon does not know this?
Prices are public, and everything costs the same, you are not just paying hardware, but also all the services that goes around it.
Thanks Juan for the critical comments. An apple-to-apple comparison in cloud services is very difficult. I have tried here to simplify the problem and show the readers a way how you can compare the compute resources based on the purpose of its use. Also the post helps a business decision maker to know which cloud provider gives them best price.
You are absolutely right in pointing out that opting for the provider which gives $0.005 lesser quote is a bad decision. There are many other factors such as reliability, ease of configuration, security, availability of cloud services which determine the final decision of choosing my cloud partner.
And actually, for RAM based machine, in azure you should go for E series, where you went for general purpose D12.
Azure Standard_E4s_v3 CPU: 4 RAM:32 = $0.266/hour = 0.0083125/GBRam/Hour
Google n1-highmem-4 CPU: 4 RAM:26 = $0.234/hour = 0.009/GBRam/Hour
Who is more expensive here? :)
At the end everything is calculated, and all companies take this into account. You think amazon does not know this?
Prices are public, and everything costs the same, you are not just paying hardware, but also all the services that goes around it.
Thanks Juan for the critical comments. An apple-to-apple comparison in cloud services is very difficult. I have tried here to simplify the problem and show the readers a way how you can compare the compute resources based on the purpose of its use. Also the post helps a business decision maker to know which cloud provider gives them best price.
You are absolutely right in pointing out that opting for the provider which gives $0.005 lesser quote is a bad decision. There are many other factors such as reliability, ease of configuration, security, availability of cloud services which determine the final decision of choosing my cloud partner.
maybe showing it as quadrants? price/ram vs cpu/ram and see which is in the sweat spot?