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I migrated a big data stack to GCP from AWS. Reasons: GCP has better documentation, the AWS console and various services confuse the heck out of me (I guess I'm
by nrjames 9y ago
I migrated a big data stack to GCP from AWS. Reasons: GCP has better documentation, the AWS console and various services confuse the heck out of me (I guess I'm getting too old), and the security integration between GCP services saves a huge amount of time. It's super easy and very fast to used the Google Compute Engine VMs. Given that the company I work for uses G Suite, it's a piece of cake to implement SSO and other integration pieces. It's also cheaper for us than AWS and more performant.
- jsudhams 9y agoWait until GCP becomes older with bigquery and other versions. Also GCP does not have regions ready and it takes forever to get a new region. Waiting for Mumbai region for more than 3 to 4 months now. But one thing i like about GCP is that it allows to the limit setting in terms of cost and ensure you wont cross it. In case of AWS it can give alerts but for some reason say all you team in in one location and there is emergency like flood etc and you dont check email then you are done. I stopped using AWS after i learned that there is simply no way to set limit. Waiting for GCP to open their Mumbai region. sigh. Also AWS is very deceiving with free tier , there is simply no way to understand which products get free and worst case is after free tier you will get charged.
- yeukhon 9y agoAWS doesn't add a new region every 3-4 months either. Adding a new region is very complicated. Normally vendor does not actually build the DC themselves. They would source from other data centers in the region whenever possible. Building a new DC is not something can be taken lightly. Then finally local laws.