1) Cloud Cost Reduction Firm Compares AWS, Google Cloud Pricing
By David Ramel
ParkMyCloud, a company specializing in cloud cost reduction services for its customers, published a post that compares pricing for Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) offerings.
Along with pricing comparisons, the company examined terminology and billing differences between the two platforms. The post is a rewrite/update of a 2017 post, including cloud pricing data as of this month.
The post examines areas such as "AWS Reserved Instances vs GCP Committed Use" and "AWS vs. GCP Compute Sizing," but makes no firm conclusions in favor of either platform. Continue reading.
2) Firm Launches Portal to Petabytes of Public Data on AWS Cloud
By David Ramel
Quilt Data, which promises to help users "manage data like code" with a versioned data portal for AWS, launched a new portal that it says unlocks petabytes of public data for discovery and sharing.
The portal, open.quiltdata.com, shows the availability of 10.2 billion objects, 3.7 petabytes of of data and 24 S3 (AWS storage) buckets .
"Quilt is a versioned data portal for AWS," the site says. "open.quiltdata.com offers access to the world's public data in S3, including Amazon's Registry of Open Data." Continue reading.
David Ramel is the editor for AWSInsider.net. Keep up with the latest AWS news here.
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