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Meanwhile, Google Compute Engine still only has four regions and hasn't expanded in over 18 months. (Don't get me started on App Engine, it's not even availabl
by kiwidrew 11y ago
Meanwhile, Google Compute Engine still only has four regions and hasn't expanded in over 18 months. (Don't get me started on App Engine, it's not even available for the Asia region!)
Still no presence in the entire southern hemisphere!
- aerioux 11y agoGCE's multi-regional buckets are quite awesome though and cheaper than paying Amazon to move between regions
- eric-hu 11y agoCould you go into what the price difference is or what your use case is? Just curious in what situations I might want to consider Google over S3.
- aerioux 11y agohonestly i think http://blog.zachbjornson.com/2015/12/29/cloud-storage-performance.html http://blog.zachbjornson.com/2015/12/29/cloud-storage-perfor... does a better job than i could* * benchmarks are easily fakeable - please don't bet your company on one
- Nyr 11y agoBut Google has absolutely the best peering available, which is a great advantage for many regions.
- dmytton 11y agoGoogle added their 4th region - US East - in October last year[1] but it's true that this is poor effort compared to Azure and AWS. I wrote an article for InfoWorld about this at the end of last year: http://www.infoworld.com/article/3008617/cloud-computing/global-location-wars-amazon-vs-microsoft-vs-google.html http://www.infoworld.com/article/3008617/cloud-computing/glo... and have a map of locations at https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=zV7qz2PQ6Sz4.kJHcuwnR7RZ4 https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=zV7qz2PQ6Sz4.kJHcuw... [1] http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.co.uk/2015/10/Bringing-Google-Cloud-Platform-closer-to-more-people-and-businesses.html http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.co.uk/2015/10/Bringing-G...