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They've been a heavy Azure user too. Probably more than AWS. I'm glad there's now at least 2 and probably 3 competitors for public cloud infrastructure. So m
by rdl 11y ago
They've been a heavy Azure user too. Probably more than AWS.
I'm glad there's now at least 2 and probably 3 competitors for public cloud infrastructure. So many things were at risk, including adoption of public cloud in general, when it was a sole source monopoly from Google (OpenStack/Rackspace/etc. was basically stillborn, and VPSes aren't the same thing, nor was VMware ever really credible for public cloud)
Neither GC nor Azure are as comprehensive as AWS, but together at least one of them is usually a viable alternative for any given deal.
- redwood 11y agoYea big news. We all benefit from competition here
- enraged_camel 11y ago>>OpenStack/Rackspace/etc. was basically stillborn What's wrong with Openstack/Rackspace?
- paulryanrogers 11y agoFeature creep if I recall correctly. Though Openshift is an interesting implementation.
- tracker1 11y agoGoogle has some really interesting features, closer to docker, so some better mobility options from private/vps to google, and back. They seem to have some of the best compute options out there, and tend to perform above the others in a lot of ways. Azure's services are imho a bit easier to use, at least from my limited experience, mostly vm's, queues, tables and hosted sql. AWS has so many options and services it's hard to keep some of them straight... Lambda is really interesting imho, and some of their options for data storage are compelling to say the least. Joyent's Triton/Docker option is really interesting, but their pricing model just seems too much for what they're offering. I do hope that they have success in terms of selling/setting up private clouds though... there's a lot of big companies that would be much better off with their solutions.