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AWS is in a really weird place right now. They're powerful and have a bright future, obviously. But it feels like its already become a legacy platform in the cl
by 013a 9y ago
AWS is in a really weird place right now. They're powerful and have a bright future, obviously. But it feels like its already become a legacy platform in the cloud world.
Look at what they've released in the past two years... their AI stuff is second rate compared to Google, and seems like its just there to check boxes. Their serverless stuff beyond Lambda is overpriced, like Aurora Serverless and Fargate. They're dragging their feet on EKS; it was announced 5 months ago, we still don't have a release date, and the latest webcast (last week) they showed made it seem either really bad or really unfinished, like you have to involve CloudFormation to provision instances, manually manage VPC subnets, etc.
Its a world where they have a core set of "legacy" building blocks that are really good and well-tested (EC2, RDS, S3, SNS, SQS, a few others) but if you go beyond those you enter uncharted territory that mostly exists to seem hip and check boxes.
GCP, on the other hand, has legitimately powerful products at higher abstraction levels like GKE, Firebase, DialogFlow, and their AI stuff. I know less about Azure, but they seem to be doing well checking boxes and pushing toward more higher abstraction levels with things like AKS, service fabric, etc. Where's the actionable innovation at AWS?
- tyingq 9y agoAgreed. Looking forward to when Azure, GCP, and AWS have more equal marketshare. That will fix some current cloud shortcomings. Like stupid high egress rates. Or Amazon's lack of a real Spanner competitor. Though, I get some of the egress upcharge in GCP. Their global network is worth some premium. Just not the current predatory pricing.