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I just finished a project on Azure and am now doing a project on Google Cloud. I've been blown away by the documentation and user experience. It's by far my fav

I just finished a project on Azure and am now doing a project on Google Cloud. I've been blown away by the documentation and user experience. It's by far my favorite between AWS, Azure, and GCP. Glad to see Windows VMs are now supported. Any intention to add C# drivers for the services, namely Pub/Sub?

jahewson 10y ago
> Glad to see Windows VMs are now supported. Any intention to add C# drivers for the services, namely Pub/Sub? You might want to read the article. About 1/3 of it is devoted to announcing their new .net client libraries.
- jc4p 10y ago
  I don't know if I should post this comment or not, but for the record this is one of the HN guidelines I try to abide by the most: > Please don't insinuate that someone hasn't read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
  - teh_klev 10y ago
    I do too....but..... "You might want to read the article" !== "Did you even read the article" in terms of intentional snark for which that guideline is intended. Parent also points out that a decent chunk of the article is about the support libs, To quote fairly early on in the article just from a quick scan (Ctrl+F "pub"): "These libraries are in beta today, and include wrappers for Google BigQuery, Google Cloud Storage, Google Cloud Pub/Sub and Google Cloud Datastore, with more on the way"
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hockeybias 10y ago
Which is your favorite? thanks
0xFFC 10y ago
Sorry, I couldn't quite understand which one was your favorite, GCP or Azure?
- slap_shot 10y ago
  Whoops. Sorry. GCP has been my favorite.
  - MichaelGG 10y ago
    GCP is head-and-shoulders better, at least in my not-super-involved experience (that is, I haven't automated everything). Azure has been buggy as all hell. Terrible confusing slow portal. Slow boots. Machines that hang, requiring the "Redmond shuffle" (resize a Windows VM twice to get RDP working again). Insane SSD situation. AWS is solid but feels cluttered, I guess. GCP is just ... a breath of fresh air. And it's way cheaper than Azure (last I checked, some VMs were 1/5th the cost; our overall cost is 1/2 on GCP.)
    - wstrange 10y ago
      When I did a price comparison (4 months) ago, GCP was the least expensive by a long shot. Azure was shockingly expensive -but then again, I suspect they offer their enterprise customers discounts that may not be published.
      - MichaelGG 10y ago
        The enterprise agreements don't help that much. Azure is banking on the fact that traditional Windows shops will pay tons to run MS's cloud. Hadoop... On Microsoft, and so on. Plus they have unique AD positioning.

jahewson 10y ago

> Glad to see Windows VMs are now supported. Any intention to add C# drivers for the services, namely Pub/Sub? You might want to read the article. About 1/3 of it is devoted to announcing their new .net client libraries.

jc4p 10y ago
I don't know if I should post this comment or not, but for the record this is one of the HN guidelines I try to abide by the most: > Please don't insinuate that someone hasn't read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- teh_klev 10y ago
  I do too....but..... "You might want to read the article" !== "Did you even read the article" in terms of intentional snark for which that guideline is intended. Parent also points out that a decent chunk of the article is about the support libs, To quote fairly early on in the article just from a quick scan (Ctrl+F "pub"): "These libraries are in beta today, and include wrappers for Google BigQuery, Google Cloud Storage, Google Cloud Pub/Sub and Google Cloud Datastore, with more on the way"
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hockeybias 10y ago

Which is your favorite? thanks

0xFFC 10y ago

Sorry, I couldn't quite understand which one was your favorite, GCP or Azure?

slap_shot 10y ago
Whoops. Sorry. GCP has been my favorite.
- MichaelGG 10y ago
  GCP is head-and-shoulders better, at least in my not-super-involved experience (that is, I haven't automated everything). Azure has been buggy as all hell. Terrible confusing slow portal. Slow boots. Machines that hang, requiring the "Redmond shuffle" (resize a Windows VM twice to get RDP working again). Insane SSD situation. AWS is solid but feels cluttered, I guess. GCP is just ... a breath of fresh air. And it's way cheaper than Azure (last I checked, some VMs were 1/5th the cost; our overall cost is 1/2 on GCP.)
  - wstrange 10y ago
    When I did a price comparison (4 months) ago, GCP was the least expensive by a long shot. Azure was shockingly expensive -but then again, I suspect they offer their enterprise customers discounts that may not be published.
    - MichaelGG 10y ago
      The enterprise agreements don't help that much. Azure is banking on the fact that traditional Windows shops will pay tons to run MS's cloud. Hadoop... On Microsoft, and so on. Plus they have unique AD positioning.