Is Amazon the cheapest cloud computing provider? Myth Busters! (blog.cloudorado.com)

10 points by okrasz 14y ago ↗ HN

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wccrawford 14y ago ↗

I've never heard anyone even suggest they were the cheapest. I've heard of a lot other adjectives, though.

RobertLowe 14y ago ↗

Agreed, also how would you mix in the cost of failure with each of those providers? (just out of curiosity)

Amazom is fairly cheap and is popular so you have lots of support dev-wise from communities.

What about features? Do other providers support something like AMIs, etc?

okrasz 14y ago ↗

But people are asking this type of questions. Look here for instance:

http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1059226

famedriver 14y ago ↗

The comparison doesn't include examples using Amazon's reserve instances - which offer a nice savings.

pan69 14y ago ↗

Would you consider the likes of Linode to be cloud? They basically only offer fixed sized VPS's that are very difficult to scale. E.g. if you want more disk-space you have to pay for an entire VPS.

I think this article is comparing apples and oranges.

garyrichardson 14y ago ↗

Ugh. I hope "Myth Busting" articles aren't the new "Top X Reasons" articles..