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From product perspective, Google cloud is far ahead from AWS and Azure. As one who runs a company that operates on all 3, serving over 3b+ HTTPS requests daily
by tzury 8y ago
From product perspective, Google cloud is far ahead from AWS and Azure.
As one who runs a company that operates on all 3, serving over 3b+ HTTPS requests daily, across 250K of web apps, in all continents, I can say clear and simple:
GCP Compute, Networking stack and storage are a superior product when compared to AWS and Azure.
For every dollar you pay:
- You get more compute power per core, while paying less.
- You get faster network, internal and external, with an amazing layer of load-balancing and Anycast IP.
- You get the best "data processing at scale".
Google has a business problem rather than product. A smart man once told me,
In B2C, the one with the better product is most likely to win.
In B2B, the one with the larger sales team will.
Perhaps, Google is still learning that vast majority of business, especially the larger ones are not about easy self sign up, rather face-to-face meetings, price quotes, negotiations, etc. It is a different culture that almost as oppose to how they used to run things thus far.
Figures don't lie however, and revenue streams are the oxygen of a business.
All it takes for GCP to get the crown would be a series of right and bold decisions by its executives, which I hope they will make those eventually, since the product deserves a wider recognition.
- scirocco 8y agoAs someone who works in sales, I totally agree. People in procurement are often measured on the amount of discount they can get. Try getting that when you purchase online. In the Nordics you can't compare the "salesforce" of AWS and Google with the army that is the Azure-team.
- a_imho 8y agoDidn't they suffer a global outage just the other day?
- Artemis2 8y agoCaused by a bad BGP route announcement [1]; this is outside of the control of Google. However, they do seem to have global incidents more often than the competition (for example [2] last July) 1: https://status.cloud.google.com/incident/cloud-networking/18018 https://status.cloud.google.com/incident/cloud-networking/18... 2: https://status.cloud.google.com/incident/cloud-networking/18012 https://status.cloud.google.com/incident/cloud-networking/18...
- gibba999 8y ago... and you get what you pay for. Whenever I've had a problem on AWS, I've spoken to a human being, and had a detailed information on what was happening and how they were fixing it. I don't have a support plan through Amazon, but I do a bit of business there (now). When I had a problem with Google, the response was a stone wall. Online FAQs and no one to talk to. Even security issues, they blow people off on. I wouldn't base a business on the Google Cloud. Too big a risk.
- plantain 8y agoI have no idea how you are getting someone to talk to from AWS without paying. I have had 10k/mo spend with both and without a support plan you get absolutely nothing, and with they fall over themselves to help, calling you immediately after filing tickets.
- gibba999 8y agoSome of the projects I work on are pretty high-profile. I assumed they did that for everybody, but perhaps that lead to special treatment?
- callesgg 8y agoWell you have just not got to googles business team. I have multiple times gotten what google calls sales engineers to my office discussing solutions. Like they literally came to the office sat at the table and talked to us.
- tzury 8y agoWe are on a paid support at all 3 vendors, and getting phone support 24/7 when needed. Not sure that is a differentiator at all, except for the Support pricing model.
- wodenokoto 8y ago> In B2B, the one with the larger sales team will. Around the Nordic countries at least, Google tries to outsource sales to participants in the Google Cloud Partners program. If you want the " face-to-face meetings, price quotes, negotiations, etc", you go to a partner. How one chooses a trusted partner, when ones decision is based on the Google brand, I have no idea...
- dijit 8y agoI only have my own experiences. But in Malmö, Sweden I have direct access to google sales (based in Stockholm)
- msoad 8y agoPlease please don't use code blocks for this kind of text. Impossible to read on mobile
- tzury 8y agoNoted.