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7/4/2014 - 4:31 PM
data - Cloud RAM pricing
Cloud RAM pricing
AWS r3.8xlarge:
- 32 vCPUs
- 244GB RAM
- 1 year heavy reservation cost: $8,656 upfront, plus ~$0.56/hr
- Monthly effective rate: $1,114.28
- $4.57 per GB per month
- Additional discounts for volume (5% >250K, 10% > $2M)
- Source: http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/#reserved-instances updated 8/13/2015
GCE n1-highmem-32:
- 32 cores each
- 208GB RAM each
- No reservation upfront
- Monthly effective rate: $1,058.25
- $5.09 per GB per month
- Source: https://cloud.google.com/products/calculator/ updated 8/13/2015
Softlayer bare metal:
- 16 cores
- 1TB Ram
- Reservation not applicable? (owned?)
- Monthly effective rate: $5,333.67
- $5.21 per GB per month
- Catch: extra $2k/mo for unlimited 100mbps bandwidth
- They let you configure an E5-4650 with 1TB but http://ark.intel.com/products/64622/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E5-4650-20M-Cache-2_70-GHz-8_00-GTs-Intel-QPI says the CPU can only use 384GB?
- Source: http://www.softlayer.com/bare-metal-servers & configurator updated 8/13/2015
Digital Ocean - 64GB - 4x:
- 20 cores
- 64GB RAM
- Monthly effective rate: $2,856
- $11.16 per GB per month
- Source: https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing/ updated 8/13/2015
Rackspace 240GB memory optimized:
- 32 vCPUs
- 240GB RAM
- Can't find reservation info
- Monthly effective rate: $2,686.62
- $11.19 per GB per month
- Spec'd with 640GB "Cloud Block Storage"...
- Source: http://www.rackspace.com/calculator updated 8/13/2015
Linode 96 * 2 :
- 20 cores
- 96GB RAM
- Reservation pricing? (monthly a little discounted from hourly...)
- Monthly effective rate: $2,160
- $11.25 per GB per month
- 1920GB SSD, 20TB transfer, 40gbps in 10gbps out
- Source: https://www.linode.com/pricing updated 8/13/2015
Softlayer VM equivalent - 4 instances:
- 8 cores
- 64GB RAM
- Reservations? (monthly seems discounted from the hourly rate)
- Monthly effective rate: $2,895
- $11.30 per GB per month
- Source: http://www.softlayer.com/virtual-servers updated 8/13/2015
Azure G5 Linux instance:
- 32 cores
- 448 GB RAM
- Monthly effective rate: $6,517.50/mo
- $14.55 per GB per month
- Does come w/ 40Gbit Infiniband...
- Source: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/calculator/?scenario=full and https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/virtual-machines/ and https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/offers/commitment-plans/ updated 8/13/2015
Joyent 256GB g3-highmemory-256-smartos-cc:
- 32 vCPUs
- 256GB RAM
- "Contact Us" for reservation info
- Monthly effective rate: $4,576.50
- $17.87 per GB per month
- includes 10gbit and 4.2TB disk
- Source: https://www.joyent.com/products/compute-service/pricing updated 8/13/2015
Runners-up:
- $26.25/GB/mo Synaptic (AT&T) Source: https://www.synaptic.att.com/clouduser/compute_pricing.htm (8/13/2015)
- $10.41/GB/mo mnx.io Source: http://mnx.io/pricing/ (8/13/2015)
- $??.??/GB/mo Verizon (formerly Terremark) Source: used to be https://vcloudexpress.terremark.com/pricing.aspx but now http://cloud.verizon.com/cloud-portfolio/getstarted#tab-pricing
- GoGrid got bought by DataPipe, killed public cloud offering? 1/20/15