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Thank you , but what I meant was in heavy work load. I know the basic ideas. But I am curious in heavy work load which one is preferred for what. AFAIK Spotify
by 0xFFC 10y ago
Thank you , but what I meant was in heavy work load. I know the basic ideas. But I am curious in heavy work load which one is preferred for what. AFAIK Spotify went with GCP, many big companies went with azure, most startups chose AWS.
What was the reason behind these, personal preference? Or technical superiority?
The reason for my curiosity is Microsoft and Oracle kind of sees Cloud Computing as life and death situation.
- querulous 10y agoaws generally has the most features but clunky apis and high costs gce has really nice apis but limited features and unless you do things like google you'll have to do a lot of your own integration work i've never seriously used azure
- NeutronBoy 10y agoJust to complete your comparison, Azure has some great MS-based PaaS offerings (e.g. hosted DB, hosted IIS, etc) and great integration with MS environments, but I find their interfaces (API and portal) more clunky than AWS.
- vgt 10y agoI'm genuinely curious on what limitations you've seen with Google's Cloud. Google Compute Engine alone has lots of nifty features that even AWS EC2 lacks, like custom VMs, generalized VM types (no need to go for specific instances to get fast networking, for example), preemptible VMs, live migration, disk hot-grow, and sustained use discounts, while generally being cheaper. (work on GCP)
- AdamN 10y agoPeople generally say Azure suits the enterprise, AWS suits tech-driven companies (i.e. those where the CEO knows what an API is), and Google supports special/hobby projects. Google is probably awesome but nobody trusts them to not just abandon the whole thing in a few years time. Amazon and Azure are going to be around for at least a decade.
- thesandlord 10y agoGoogle is not going to abandon cloud. I'm not sure anything I say can convince you, but the fact the Spotify, Evernote, Disney, Home Depot, Snapchat, etc all run on GCP says a lot.
- Slippery_John 10y agoGoogle doesn't have a good track record supporting its products. I have no doubt that GCloud will stick around, but the fact remains that Google has trust problems.
- vgt 10y agoThis comes up sometimes, and is really not well supported. Happy to discuss every time it does come up :) Google Cloud is paid b2b, not free b2c - companies like Disney, Spotify, Evernote build very close multi-year relationships with Google, rely on Google, pay Google, etc. Google Cloud going away would shut down, for example, all of Snapchat. (work at GCP)
- Slippery_John 10y agoI understand that, which is why I don't worry about the future of GCP. However, the negative perception gained from some of those free b2c endeavors will still damage the reputation of unrelated Google products and services like GCP.
- thesandlord 10y agoI'd say with GCP, the managed services are key. Pub/Sub, Global Load Balancing, Firebase, BigQuery, Container Engine, etc. They just work, no need to mess with things. Price to Performance and simplicity is also good, but that's secondary IMO. I'm obviously biased, but hey! With AWS, the ecosystem is massive. They also have the most features (though GCP and Azure have their own unique features and are catching up fast). I haven't used Azure, can't really comment on it.