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> The SDK situation is a mess compared to AWS. Google's complicated style of authentication is particularly onerous on developers. How so? For us, the JS SDK f
by zbjornson 10y ago
> The SDK situation is a mess compared to AWS. Google's complicated style of authentication is particularly onerous on developers.
How so? For us, the JS SDK for GCP has been way better than AWS's, and authentication "just works" if you're running from within GCP. With AWS we hit a pesky, wide-spread bug with random authentication failures [0] that hasn't been addressed in almost a year.
[0] https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-js/issues/692 https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-js/issues/692
- moca 10y agoAgree. If you use any SDK built on top of Application Default Credentials library, it should work automatically and transparently across different environments. The complexity is handled by the library. [0] https://cloud.google.com/docs/authentication https://cloud.google.com/docs/authentication