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I test and use all 3 main public cloud providers. I keep Azure out in this conversation for now: A quick comparison of GCP & AWS : The services & flexibility

I test and use all 3 main public cloud providers. I keep Azure out in this conversation for now: A quick comparison of GCP & AWS : The services & flexibility of options offered by GCP is not even in par with AWS. Yes I may be able to spin up a couple of VMs but when it comes to enterprise GCP can't be an option. It is like buying the new macbook pro and can't add more than 16gb memory! A designer for sure needs more ram regardless even if Macbook pro is offered for free. - There are about 50+ 3rd party offerings in Google Cloudlauncher compare to thousands in AWS Marketplace! - Choice of server/OS! maximum 8vCPU-7.2Mem in GCP compare to 192 vCPU and 2TB memory in AWS -NoSQL Big table ( max 30 nodes) - compare to ( virtually unlimited DynamoDB) -SQL (only MySQL in GCP ) compare to ( Almost all with exception of DB2 in AWS). - and so forth - Just having Lambda, F5 support is damn good reason to go for AWS regardless of how much it costs. Those are the basic needs of SMB that google can't even offer. - 60 day trial and 300 dollar limit! compare to 1 year The whole point of moving to the cloud is to have no limits and be able to have access to resources whenever you want. Google offering is very limited for now. This is just a lame marketing move by google and I hope they first fix their offerings and then compare. I can go to godaddy and say I'm cheaper maybe! Just check the list of services offered by both and see which one should be considered for a serious customer. We are all professional and judge products by testing them, open an account in both and judge by yourself. When I started using GCP it sounded refined for basic services but when it comes to Bigdata, monitoring I did not find the console very integrated nor usable.

thesandlord 10y ago
I work for Google Cloud. I think a blanket statement claiming the GCP is 50% cheaper that AWS is a bad for all the reasons you stated, there is a lot more than just VM pricing you have to take into account! We are definetly working on a lot of the things you brought up, I hope this time in 2017 your experience will be very different. Want to clarify a few things though: > - Choice of server/OS! maximum 8vCPU-7.2Mem in GCP compare to 192 vCPU and 2TB memory in AWS The biggest instance on GCP currently is 32vCPU-120GB. Also, with custom machine types you can tune your machine and pick exactly how many cores / memory you need; you are not stuck with predefined instance types. Curious what OSs AWS supports that GCP does not? AWS definitely has a better vertical scaling story though. > - NoSQL Big table ( max 30 nodes) - compare to ( virtually unlimited DynamoDB) BigTable and DynamoDB are not really comparable. BigTable is much lower level. The apples to apples comparison is DynamoDB and Datastore, and Datastore is also unlimited. > - 60 day trial and 300 dollar limit! compare to 1 year I'd also like to see a longer trial for GCP, but the AWS trial gives you 1 year access to basic usage. With GCP, you can spend the $300 any way you like. Personally I'm not sure which model is better or worse, though I lean towards the AWS model.

thesandlord 10y ago

I work for Google Cloud. I think a blanket statement claiming the GCP is 50% cheaper that AWS is a bad for all the reasons you stated, there is a lot more than just VM pricing you have to take into account! We are definetly working on a lot of the things you brought up, I hope this time in 2017 your experience will be very different. Want to clarify a few things though: > - Choice of server/OS! maximum 8vCPU-7.2Mem in GCP compare to 192 vCPU and 2TB memory in AWS The biggest instance on GCP currently is 32vCPU-120GB. Also, with custom machine types you can tune your machine and pick exactly how many cores / memory you need; you are not stuck with predefined instance types. Curious what OSs AWS supports that GCP does not? AWS definitely has a better vertical scaling story though. > - NoSQL Big table ( max 30 nodes) - compare to ( virtually unlimited DynamoDB) BigTable and DynamoDB are not really comparable. BigTable is much lower level. The apples to apples comparison is DynamoDB and Datastore, and Datastore is also unlimited. > - 60 day trial and 300 dollar limit! compare to 1 year I'd also like to see a longer trial for GCP, but the AWS trial gives you 1 year access to basic usage. With GCP, you can spend the $300 any way you like. Personally I'm not sure which model is better or worse, though I lean towards the AWS model.