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		_pfwi on Feb 13, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Silicon Valley startups rein in spending and prepa... No, I don't work at Google. I work for Monsanto. Here is my take on AWS vs Google: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/10O1YeNpPjylHLugEz8GI... Performance benchmark summary: ("1X" is AWS) Compute: VMs Price: 30% less Boot time: ¼ X Network between VMs: Same region: 4X Across regions: 10X BigQuery vs Redshift : ½ -20X Big Data (Hadoop and Spark): 3X Disks: Read throughput: 1X Write throughput: 4X (Ephemeral); 2X (Persistent) Local SSDs: Read throughput: 8X Writes throughput: 4X Storage (S3): Throughput: 2X Latency: 3X (initial); ½ X (for subsequent reads)

NotSammyHagar on Feb 14, 2016 [–]

Monsanto is actively damaging the future agricultural possibilities of the entire world with their business practices and how they sell their seeds. Creating seeds that we can way over dose with poison?

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