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Please relay back to your team that the moment you get Postgres for your Cloud SQL product you'll get a lot of AWS converts.
by seehafer 10y ago
Please relay back to your team that the moment you get Postgres for your Cloud SQL product you'll get a lot of AWS converts.
- boulos 10y agoPlease come to NEXT in two weeks! (https://cloudnext.withgoogle.com https://cloudnext.withgoogle.com). Most of the registration becomes credits :).
- bitmapbrother 10y agoSounds like an upcoming Postgres announcement at NEXT :)
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- rattray 10y agoOut of curiosity, why would you prefer Google Cloud to AWS?
- forgot-my-pw 10y agoGCP is generally cheaper than AWS.
- beisner 10y agoIt's cheaper for many workloads, the products work together a lot more seamlessly, instance start times are faster, and the orchestration UI is way, way, way more intuitive and user-friendly (to this user, at least). There are definitely more knobs to turn in AWS, but Google is almost at feature parity with them, and most workloads won't see a difference between the services in terms of features.
- rattray 10y agoWow, that's persuasive... is the only reason people are choosing AWS the sheer number of products they provide? (eg; Postgres RDS & Aurora)
- phonon 10y agoAWS has a better compliance story. Compare https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/ https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/ to https://cloud.google.com/security/compliance https://cloud.google.com/security/compliance
- zbjornson 10y agoAs far as HIPAA compliance goes, though, AWS EC2 requires dedicated tenancy, whereas GCE allows HIPAA workloads on any VM, including preemptible VMs.
- gkop 10y agoThis is true, however Amazon's standard BAA is a bit more robust than Google's. This didn't stop my HIPAA-compliant company from choosing Google, but it does make it more difficult to compare the two clouds on HIPAA-friendliness.
- briankereszturi 10y agoManaged Kubernetes.
- mr_luc 10y agoAgreed. I'm on GCP whenever I get to pick. For anyone else who is on AWS (maybe because of rds postgres, or because it's client work that needs to be on AWS), you can go outside of vanilla AWS to get a similarly great dev UX. I've used Convox + the Weave ECS AMI on a project, and it was pleasant.
- rattray 10y agoHow much of a boon is that, though? Isn't Kubernetes built to be self-managing on any platform?
- mikecb 10y agoKubernetes manages containers, but what manages Kubernetes? GKE just makes the experience very painless, updates, etc.
- mjn 10y agoIt's better than fully self-managing it, but GKE is still less managed than I'd personally like. I just want to submit containers as jobs to be executed in "the cloud", with the cloud provider figuring out the details of where they get executed. On GKE, have to create a cluster in the cloud, then submit your jobs to your cluster, and set up logic to manage provisioning/resizing/etc., rather than just being able to submit your jobs to a giant abstracted cluster managed by Google. Joyent's Triton container service basically does that, so it's possible.
- mikecb 10y agoHave you tried Appengine flexible environment?
- eblanshey 10y ago
- mikecb 10y agoKiller network.
- doh 10y agoSpending on GCP is more predictable than on AWS. Also the general behavior is more predictable. For instance all pre-emptible instances are terminated in 24 hours. On AWS based on when they need the resources. I believe that whatever GCP does, does better. Faster network, faster spinning and turning off servers, simpler quotas, etc. GCP doesn't offer that many services as AWS and most of those are not very compatible with Apache tools (although they're doing their best, e.g. BigTable looks like Hbase from outside). In our case, we're running ~28,000 servers on GCE and utilizing many services, especially PubSub, BigQuery, etc. The price we're paying for our setup is roughly 1/4 of a similar setup on AWS.
- nugator 10y agoHoly cow, 28 000 servers, can you give us a clue to what you need so many servers for?
- doh 10y agoWe're processing videos, a lot of them. Roughly 34PB worth of data every month. Additionally we're running our search engine at top of it with couple of other services. You can check what we're up to here https://pex.com https://pex.com
- nugator 10y agoCool, thanks for the info!
- EnigmaticLion 10y agoThat landing page is a whopping 9MB [1]. Please optimize it for users with slow internet like me. [1] https://www.webpagetest.org/result/170225_RN_1K80/ https://www.webpagetest.org/result/170225_RN_1K80/
- doh 10y agoI apologize. We need to pay more attention to the actual website