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This is good news for GCS but they will need to compete on more than price if they want to gain market share. Saving 500$ / month is minuscule compared to the
by meow_mix 10y ago
This is good news for GCS but they will need to compete on more than price if they want to gain market share.
Saving 500$ / month is minuscule compared to the time it will cost engineers to migrate from AWS to GCS and get used to the new service.
- movedx 10y agoLook at Terraform. With the right infrastructure tooling, it's not hard to move at all. Look at Ansible (or Puppet, Chef, Salt, etc.) With the right configuration management tooling, it's much, much easier to migrate services.
- rotten 10y agoThe web interfaces for Google Compute Engine/Disks/Networking are much more intuitive. The pricing calculator is built right in. And - they offer free consulting services to help you migrate out of AWS. We are moving out of AWS to Google Compute Engine and it has really gone fairly smoothly and within a couple of weeks was already saving us money.