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Is there a reason Google is so slow to compete with AWS? This seems like another example of where they're playing catch-up. Meanwhile, I'm blown away that Node

Is there a reason Google is so slow to compete with AWS? This seems like another example of where they're playing catch-up. Meanwhile, I'm blown away that Node is still just in Beta (with no SLA / deprecation guarantees) when Heroku and AWS have supported it for years.

lobster_johnson 10y ago
They're playing catch-up in some areas, but in others (networking, containers, pub/sub, BigQuery, authentication, CLI tools), they're ahead (and AWS is far behind). Whereas AWS aggressively targets the more traditional enterprise stacks (like running a big single-node RDBMS in the cloud), Google seems to give priority to more modern, decentralized tech.
- meddlepal 10y ago
  It seems Google is very interested in making GCP a platform for companies that really need to build cloud-based distributed systems first and foremost. It's a cloud-native IaaS platform. AWS, which I also use extensively FWIW, has always felt more like a platform for porting existing on-premise applications onto. You can build atop of AWS at any stage of the game, but it never quite feels like it's anymore than a bunch of very integrated parts with various degrees of quality.
  - lobster_johnson 10y ago
    Yes, exactly.
bsg75 10y ago
Using the example I have worked with, BigQuery, it appears Google is building platforms specifically for the cloud. BQ does not use the context of an instance, whereas RedShift is simply a column store hosted on specific VM sizes. It takes time to build new solutions compared to simply moving the hosting location. I don't expect this is universal across all products, but one example.