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Advanced I'd suggest is subjective, however Google cloud has not been running longer than AWS (GCP started in 2008 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Cloud_P

Advanced I'd suggest is subjective, however Google cloud has not been running longer than AWS (GCP started in 2008 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Cloud_Platform https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Cloud_Platform), AWS started in 2006 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Web_Services https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Web_Services), with Azure coming along a bit after those two in 2010 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Azure https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Azure)

j_s 9y ago
I'm giving OP the benefit of the doubt, assuming they're including the time Google itself was the only user of their cloud. Still not sure how that timeline compares to the Amazon-only pre-AWS.
manigandham 9y ago
I'm not talking about their public cloud offering but rather their entire operational experience as one of the first companies to truly use next-gen architecture to build their software and data centers. They're just now offering the same tech to the public with GCP products like Compute Engine, Spanner, BigQuery, etc. which shows in the level of sophistication and performance compared to Azure and AWS.
- raesene9 9y ago
  I'm afraid that all feels very subjective to me, Microsoft were providing online services before Google even existed as a company, so I'm not sure how Google could have more operational experience of online services. You obviously feel that Google's services are more advanced than Microsoft's and Amazon's but from a market share perspective they're clearly running third to those two.
  - manigandham 9y ago
    What does marketshare have to do with how advanced the tech is or the lineage of their architecture? Especially marketshare of just their public clouds? All 3 majors have great tech but Google has been doing much more advanced stuff which can be seen directly in their products. Everything in GCP is seamless from scaling without warm-ups, per-minute billing, automatic discounts, custom vm shapes, live migration, truly global load balancing, etc... and that's just in their compute engine product.

j_s 9y ago

I'm giving OP the benefit of the doubt, assuming they're including the time Google itself was the only user of their cloud. Still not sure how that timeline compares to the Amazon-only pre-AWS.

manigandham 9y ago

I'm not talking about their public cloud offering but rather their entire operational experience as one of the first companies to truly use next-gen architecture to build their software and data centers. They're just now offering the same tech to the public with GCP products like Compute Engine, Spanner, BigQuery, etc. which shows in the level of sophistication and performance compared to Azure and AWS.

raesene9 9y ago
I'm afraid that all feels very subjective to me, Microsoft were providing online services before Google even existed as a company, so I'm not sure how Google could have more operational experience of online services. You obviously feel that Google's services are more advanced than Microsoft's and Amazon's but from a market share perspective they're clearly running third to those two.
- manigandham 9y ago
  What does marketshare have to do with how advanced the tech is or the lineage of their architecture? Especially marketshare of just their public clouds? All 3 majors have great tech but Google has been doing much more advanced stuff which can be seen directly in their products. Everything in GCP is seamless from scaling without warm-ups, per-minute billing, automatic discounts, custom vm shapes, live migration, truly global load balancing, etc... and that's just in their compute engine product.