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The main sales pitch of Cloud Spanner is Google's network infrastructure. No startup will be able to replicate that anytime soon, a lot of time (and money) has
by tazjin 10y ago
The main sales pitch of Cloud Spanner is Google's network infrastructure.
No startup will be able to replicate that anytime soon, a lot of time (and money) has been put into it by a lot of people over a long time.
- scarmig 10y agoCurious: is there any company in the world that could replicate its breadth, performance, and reliability in the next decade? Could any government? Has any government? My impression is that, infrastructure wise, Google is genuinely in a class of size one.
- 010a 10y agoIts probably a class size of 2, with Amazon. Beyond those two though, no one else is close.
- tazjin 10y agoI honestly don't think Amazon is even close to Google. How much more infrastructure do they have besides AWS? How much does Google have besides GCP?
- _bpo 10y agoCapital expenditures might shed some light on this. I don't think there's enough public data to be clear but in 2015 Amazon (4.8B), Google (9.9B) and Microsoft (5.9B) were at least on the same order of magnitude in terms of CapEx, whereas other major "datacenter" companies like Rackspace (475M) are much smaller. I don't think you can draw any definitive conclusions from this, but calling it a class of size 1 or 2 is probably an overstatement of Google (+/- Amazon)'s advantage over Microsoft at least.
- renaudg 10y agoEver heard of Facebook ? :)
- manigandham 10y agoWhat? Close to what? There are many many companies with lots of network infrastructure. Google and Amazon are not by themselves.
- discodave 10y agoAWS, they just don't talk publicly about it so much.
- acchow 10y ago> Could any government? NSA's annual budget is $50bn. U.S. military budget is about $600bn. Google's revenue is $90bn and they don't spend all of it.