By The Numbers: How Google Compute Engine Stacks Up To Amazon Ec2

Sebastian Stadil, Scalr, GigaOM
Fri, 03/15/2013 - 10:30am

At Scalr, we’ve been happy customers of Amazon’s infrastructure service, EC2, since 2007. In fact, we’ve built our tools for EC2 because we saw an opportunity to leverage its flexibility to help AWS customers easily design and manage resilient services. But as competitors spring up, we always test them to see how they compare, especially in regards to io performance.

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