Move Fast and Break the Cloud

A Benchmark of VM Boot Times on the Google Cloud

For an overview of Google Cloud vs. AWS in terms of pricing and features, see my previous article, A Tale of Two Clouds.

Launching VMs on GCP is very fast! This test ran between 07/25/2018 and 07/29/2018 in us-west1-b.
+----------------+------+--------+
| Machine Type | CPUs | RAM |
+----------------+------+--------+
| n1-standard-1 | 1 | ~4 GB |
| n1-standard-8 | 8 | 30 GB |
| n1-standard-32 | 32 | 120 GB |
| n1-standard-64 | 64 | 240 GB |
| n1-standard-96 | 96 | 360 GB |
+----------------+------+--------+
VMs with ≤32 CPUs boot in under 25 seconds on GCP. Overall, VM with ≤96 CPUs feature a median boot time of under a minute! This test was run in region us-west1-b between 07/31/2018 and 08/07/2018.

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Bioinformatics Software Engineer, Author of Level up with WebAssembly book.

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Robert Aboukhalil

Bioinformatics Software Engineer, Author of Level up with WebAssembly book.