On: Fire declared in OVH SBG2 datacentre building

[joshuamorton]

reserved a1.large instances are about half the price of OVH's b2-7 instance. a1.xlarge are still cheaper (and larger). So you get more raw compute per dollar on AWS.

What?

[kuschku → joshuamorton]

If you need that large machines, and are willing to use reserved instances, you'd go with dedis on OVH instead of VMs. Which is significantly cheaper

[joshuamorton → kuschku]

OVH dedicated instances start at about the size of an a1.metal instance, which is ~30% more than the comparable OVH instance, but you can get discounts in various ways.

Or you could use t4g.2xlarge, which is cheaper. There's no situation where OVH is 3x cheaper (I mean maybe if bandwidth is your thing, but IDK).

[fooyc → joshuamorton]

I'm curious how you make your comparisons. Here is mine:

AWS a1.metal: $293 per month for 16 ARM cores, 16GB memory

OVH Rise-4 [1]: $131 per month for 16 Intel Xeon cores, 128GB memory, 500Mbit/s

And the ARM CPUs on the AWS instances are nowhere near the intel cores here, so maybe this configuration is comparable:

OVH Rise-APAC [2]: $57 per month for 4 Intel Xeon cores, 32GB memory

[1] https://www.ovhcloud.com/fr/bare-metal/rise/rise-4/

[2] https://www.ovhcloud.com/fr/bare-metal/rise/rise-apac/

[jiofih → joshuamorton]

Performance of those AWS instances comes nowhere close despite the specs.