Though there would still be other things like the lower on-demand rates, custom shapes, networking that scales with shape (rather than being coarsely grouped), being able to attach SSD / GPUs semi-arbitrarily, and so on. For those that care, not having to pay up front for the best price is also a huge deal. You see the same thing in GCS vs S3 as well: Glacier and S3-IA have a few rounding up gotchas that catch many people out.
All that said, I hope we all get to per-minute billing.
Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud (but haven't talked to the Metamarkets folks)
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Agreed, and I hope they do so!
Though there would still be other things like the lower on-demand rates, custom shapes, networking that scales with shape (rather than being coarsely grouped), being able to attach SSD / GPUs semi-arbitrarily, and so on. For those that care, not having to pay up front for the best price is also a huge deal. You see the same thing in GCS vs S3 as well: Glacier and S3-IA have a few rounding up gotchas that catch many people out.
All that said, I hope we all get to per-minute billing.
Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud (but haven't talked to the Metamarkets folks)