In this post we compare Google Cloud’s E2- class of virtual machines with N2- class of virtual machines. We compare their performance and cost so you can make data-driven decisions when choosing between the two classes.
BigBitBus Blog
Opinions on all things cloud, containers, devops, infrastructure-as-code and software development.
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Google Cloud's E2 VMs compared to the N2 VMs
June 10, 2021
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Comparing Pricing of Managed Relational Databases in AWS, Azure and GCP
March 26, 2021
In this post will go over the pricing of relational database services across the three major providers viz. Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). We will show how using a different provider can help you save money as well as how costs scale with database size. B3Console can be your inbiased data-driven decision helper in this space!
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Matching Algorithm
February 08, 2021
In this article we explain some of the internals of our ML-based cloud provider comparison solution implemented in our B3Console product.
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Cloud Cost Optimization - Where to Invest Your Efforts
September 13, 2020
Cloud users want to optimize their public cloud bills. A multi-pronged approach will yield the maximum benefits but some methods give you more bang-for-your-buck than others. We list the methods in decreasing order of impact so you can focus on the most impactful ones.
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Ten Things You can Do With the B3Console Today
September 11, 2020
Here are 10 things you can do with the B3Console today, and some reasons why you may want to try it out.
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The BigBitBus B3 Console
July 17, 2020
We have been busy over the past several months creating the B3 Console. The console provides a frontend to our API and unlocks the data we have been collecting and curating about several cloud providers - AWS, Azure, Alibaba Cloud, GCP and Linode.
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Data Driven Decisions behind AWS Reserved Instance Commitments
February 17, 2020
Amazon AWS gives users the option to purchase virtual machines (VMs) on a pay-as-you-go on-demand basis or commit to 1 or 3 year “reservations” and get a discounted price. The longer the commitment, the higher the discount. We wanted to answer some questions about this pricing mechanism:
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Is Your Business Trapped Inside Your Public Cloud Vendor?
February 20, 2019
It is easy to get locked into a specific cloud vendor. Learn how to keep your business free from cloud vendor lock-in.
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Lower Tier Blobs/Objects Share and Their Higher Tier Counterparts Share the Same Backend (?)
June 11, 2018
We measured and compared object storage latency of standard and lower tier AWS S3, Google Cloud storage and Azure blob storage in order to unearth performance differences between the storage tiers.
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Public Cloud Object-stores Are Very Unequal
June 05, 2018
For this article we compared the object-store performance of Amazon Web Services (S3), Google Cloud Storage and Microsoft Azure Blobs in locally redundant configurations (without geo-replication). We found very significant performance differences that can have a direct impact on user applications.