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I've been using both GCP and AWS for awhile now and think they both have their strengths and weaknesses. AWS has an amazing breadth and depth to their offering

by coleca 11y ago

I've been using both GCP and AWS for awhile now and think they both have their strengths and weaknesses. AWS has an amazing breadth and depth to their offering that GCP can't match. GCP has some very nice little features though such as how easy it is to use their system with the gcloud CLI vs AWS' CLI. The GCP offerings feel as though they were planned out and have some overarching standards whereas the AWS offerings feel as though disparate teams designed them and they tried to standardize them together after the fact. But GCP has some big gaps esp when it comes to the network and their firewall vs AWS' far superior security groups. Google has no way to chain rules together right now which can make configuring a pain. Google also feels as though it was really meant for everyone to be super user to take advantage of their web console vs AWS where the amount of ways to segment access is dizzying.

eitally 11y ago
Agreed 100%. I give it a year, though, and I think Google will sort a lot of those things. Just judging from all the press lately -- a lot of which seems "solicited", based around PR pieces -- it seems clear they're taking GCP very seriously now.
- coleca 11y ago
  Yes. It's fascinating to watch these companies evolve. A few years ago AWS was all about price reductions. Now, they are focused on large enterprises and most of their R&D is on features that appeal to that set. Google seemed to be built by engineers for engineers, but now they are starting to really polish the edges around their offering (for example their new redesigned web console that was release a week ago or so). The other advantage Google has is simple no-nonsense pricing. The longer you run a machine, the bigger discount you get. That's pretty much the extent of their pricing schema vs Amazon with their whole reserved instances and you never really know if you're getting the best deal without breaking out Excel and doing some analysis.

by coleca 11y ago

eitally 11y ago

Agreed 100%. I give it a year, though, and I think Google will sort a lot of those things. Just judging from all the press lately -- a lot of which seems "solicited", based around PR pieces -- it seems clear they're taking GCP very seriously now.

coleca 11y ago
Yes. It's fascinating to watch these companies evolve. A few years ago AWS was all about price reductions. Now, they are focused on large enterprises and most of their R&D is on features that appeal to that set. Google seemed to be built by engineers for engineers, but now they are starting to really polish the edges around their offering (for example their new redesigned web console that was release a week ago or so). The other advantage Google has is simple no-nonsense pricing. The longer you run a machine, the bigger discount you get. That's pretty much the extent of their pricing schema vs Amazon with their whole reserved instances and you never really know if you're getting the best deal without breaking out Excel and doing some analysis.