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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 behi
by 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 agoIt 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 agoYes, exactly.