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Google Cloud is not just App Engine now. Its pretty much the equivalent to aws in features. Let me also say I have PhD in Cloud and big data (graduated in 2013)

Google Cloud is not just App Engine now. Its pretty much the equivalent to aws in features. Let me also say I have PhD in Cloud and big data (graduated in 2013), worked for Amazon aws, worked for an rackspace for year and half, I was a core contributor to OpenStqck for the products OpenStack Poppy and OpenStack Zaqar. I hope you his puts se more weight behind my statements. If you are interested to know the details and why Google Cloud is better that aws for 90% of products, reach out to me.

subway 11y ago
Cool story, bro.
a-lex 11y ago
no.
nnain 11y ago
stud!
matlock 11y ago
They aren't even close to each other in featuers. All the various additional Services AWS supports go way beyond what Google has at the moment. Numerous Database offerings, Queueing, transcoder, ... Go way beyond what Google has in place. And no the ability to run it yourself on Google is not the same.
- vgt 11y ago
  Your statement is simply false. Here's a material answer - https://cloud.google.com/docs/google-cloud-platform-for-aws-professionals https://cloud.google.com/docs/google-cloud-platform-for-aws-... In short, Google has parity with AWS on many fronts, and exceeds AWS on many others. Only material AWS advantage at this point is full IAM. Biggest thing you gotta remember is AWS is stuck in "VM" world and only slightly deviates from that. Google's advantage is in its fully managed services, which AWS does poorly (don't tell me Redshift is "fully managed"). Google has Bigtable, which AWS has no competitor for. Google's Pubsub is vastly superior to SQS. Google doesn't need Firehose because Google's services scale to Firehose levels without needing a new product and a new price. Google has Zync transcoder service. Google has BigQuery, which is vastly superior to Redshift in price, performance, scale, and manageability. Google has Dataflow, which AWS has no competitor for. Even for VMs, Google offers better networking, faster disks, more reliability (live migration), better load balancer, etc. And to put the cherry on top, Google's no-committment, no-contract price is only beat if you lock yourself into AWS's 3-year contract. (disclaimer: work on BigQuery)

subway 11y ago

Cool story, bro.

a-lex 11y ago

no.

nnain 11y ago

stud!

matlock 11y ago

They aren't even close to each other in featuers. All the various additional Services AWS supports go way beyond what Google has at the moment. Numerous Database offerings, Queueing, transcoder, ... Go way beyond what Google has in place. And no the ability to run it yourself on Google is not the same.

vgt 11y ago
Your statement is simply false. Here's a material answer - https://cloud.google.com/docs/google-cloud-platform-for-aws-professionals https://cloud.google.com/docs/google-cloud-platform-for-aws-... In short, Google has parity with AWS on many fronts, and exceeds AWS on many others. Only material AWS advantage at this point is full IAM. Biggest thing you gotta remember is AWS is stuck in "VM" world and only slightly deviates from that. Google's advantage is in its fully managed services, which AWS does poorly (don't tell me Redshift is "fully managed"). Google has Bigtable, which AWS has no competitor for. Google's Pubsub is vastly superior to SQS. Google doesn't need Firehose because Google's services scale to Firehose levels without needing a new product and a new price. Google has Zync transcoder service. Google has BigQuery, which is vastly superior to Redshift in price, performance, scale, and manageability. Google has Dataflow, which AWS has no competitor for. Even for VMs, Google offers better networking, faster disks, more reliability (live migration), better load balancer, etc. And to put the cherry on top, Google's no-committment, no-contract price is only beat if you lock yourself into AWS's 3-year contract. (disclaimer: work on BigQuery)