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Having used both, I'd say that AWS has a lot more "stuff" (services) and they tend to be more scalable and practical. Google tends to create fewer services that

Having used both, I'd say that AWS has a lot more "stuff" (services) and they tend to be more scalable and practical. Google tends to create fewer services that are (generally) rock-solid with some gems like BigQuery. Fun Anecdote time: 6 months ago I needed 100 GPU machines for a bunch of batch processing. I called my Google rep and contacted AWS and Azure at the same time. Google struggled to give me enough instances and was only able to provide 10 at the time, with more on the way in other regions... However, their GCE wouldn't let me create an autoscaling group with GPU instances. Their tooling simply didn't support it. After much hassling their support centers, my rep informed me they simply didn't support it yet, and he recommended I use AWS. Azure never responded to my inquiries. Their UI and tooling is pretty lame too, and the service is expensive. AWS increased my quota quickly and it worked great. Their support tends to be responsive if brief and biased towards making the problem go away by giving you what you want.

boulos 9y ago
Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud. If you had no history, our folks were probably being cautious in granting quota (you may have noticed that cryptocurrency has been going crazy). Feel free to request another increase, but I understand if you're not interested. I don't understand your managed instance group thing though... Is that perhaps because you tried to create a regional instance group, and we only had GPUs in particular zones? (I saw a bug like that, conveyed an answer, and never heard back).
- etaioinshrdlu 9y ago
  I got 10 or so in one region, 10 or so in another region, and 32 or so in asia. It was all spread out. It really seemed like a capacity issue. This was in March 2017. In fairness, Google was pretty transparent about the whole thing. It had a lot more personal touch than the other providers. Google set me up on a call with some of their engineers to discuss autoscaling. But at some point the communication broke down a bit or maybe interest was lost in helping with my issue. Concluding with the realization that they didn't support managed instance groups with GPUs yet, and that was that.
- RhodesianHunter 9y ago
  Please please please convince someone to invest in your documentation. Your services could be great but people will never know because the documentation is either poor, spread out across multiple seemingly unrelated pages, or non-existent.
  - boulos 9y ago
    Already in process, but we hear you. The most helpful thing is to actually use the Send Feedback features throughout the docs and console (you need to be signed in) to highlight things that you find unclear. Often the initial documentation is written by the product manager in concert with our docs team, but it's easy to gloss over "obvious" things when you know it in your head.

boulos 9y ago

Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud. If you had no history, our folks were probably being cautious in granting quota (you may have noticed that cryptocurrency has been going crazy). Feel free to request another increase, but I understand if you're not interested. I don't understand your managed instance group thing though... Is that perhaps because you tried to create a regional instance group, and we only had GPUs in particular zones? (I saw a bug like that, conveyed an answer, and never heard back).

etaioinshrdlu 9y ago
I got 10 or so in one region, 10 or so in another region, and 32 or so in asia. It was all spread out. It really seemed like a capacity issue. This was in March 2017. In fairness, Google was pretty transparent about the whole thing. It had a lot more personal touch than the other providers. Google set me up on a call with some of their engineers to discuss autoscaling. But at some point the communication broke down a bit or maybe interest was lost in helping with my issue. Concluding with the realization that they didn't support managed instance groups with GPUs yet, and that was that.
RhodesianHunter 9y ago
Please please please convince someone to invest in your documentation. Your services could be great but people will never know because the documentation is either poor, spread out across multiple seemingly unrelated pages, or non-existent.
- boulos 9y ago
  Already in process, but we hear you. The most helpful thing is to actually use the Send Feedback features throughout the docs and console (you need to be signed in) to highlight things that you find unclear. Often the initial documentation is written by the product manager in concert with our docs team, but it's easy to gloss over "obvious" things when you know it in your head.