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> We found a few really nice features in their cloud products

Such a tease. What cool features did you come across?

There's quite a few.. super fast networks, network based elb (i assume cause it scales up smoothly and instantly), persistent volumes that can be attached to multiple machines at the same time (read only).. etc.

Yes I have always just used dedicated servers but started looking into cloud. It's looking very attractive but if you use a lot of bandwidth it's still much cheaper to go dedicated.

Still missing any of the fleet management stuff that AWS gives you. :/ No replacements for auto-scaling groups, IAM, CloudFormation.

I was looking into using google for my next project just out of spite towards amazon. I've used aws only in the past so figured getting familiar with a competitor and giving them some business does some good for the world.