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In the US Google is often referred to as part of the "big 3", but my understanding is GCP is globally in 4th place behind AWS, Azure and Alibaba cloud. Alibaba
by seanhunter 8y ago
In the US Google is often referred to as part of the "big 3", but my understanding is GCP is globally in 4th place behind AWS, Azure and Alibaba cloud.
Alibaba is extremely dominant in South-East Asia and if you're doing any work in Indonesia, and Malaysia in particular which have "data sovereignty" regulations, they are the only game in town. AWS and Azure have some inroads (both have AZs in Japan, Korea, Singapore, HK and mainland China) but GCP is nowhere distinctively interesting (unless you want to do something in Taiwan I guess?).
So at least if you're trying to roll out in Asia there's really little reason to even consider GCP. You'd go Alibaba if you want the dominant regional player and AWS or Azure if that's what you use everywhere else.
- delroth 8y agoGCP has zones in India, Singapore, HK, Taiwan and Tokyo (+ Osaka planned). https://cloud.google.com/about/locations/ https://cloud.google.com/about/locations/ Disclaimer: I work at Google, am technically part of Cloud, do not work on anything related to GCP.
- thesandlord 8y agoAnd Jakarta is also planned! (I _do_ work for GCP)
- lesantoso 8y agoCool. Any idea what products will be available in Jakarta region? Will App Engine be available?
- taf2 8y agoit looks like at least from here https://cloud.google.com/about/locations/ https://cloud.google.com/about/locations/ Gcp has as many if not more presence in Asia ? What am I missing?
- seanhunter 8y agoThe only one in South-East Asia that AWS and Azure don't have is Taiwan. My point is they are trailing, so they need to do something more than having the same locations as the others. They need something distinctive to have any sort of edge.
- dijit 8y agoRegarding regionality, I would say that they're mostly on-par. Googles POP's set it above the others because from a pure network perspective getting into their POP (and thus; dark fibre backbone) is helping cover being a bit further away with the actual compute. AWS in China is not "really" AWS in the way that most people assume it is. It's almost in name only as you can't just pick a chinese datacenter and have it working. It's a coordinated effort, they're not owned by Amazon and it doesn't have the full complement of services. On your main point about GCP being one of the big 3, I would (strongly) argue that if you took office365 out of the equation then Azure would look pretty anaemic in comparison to GCP. Microsoft loves talking about its cloud platform which combines the Azure Directory (AD in Cloud), o365 and their actual provisioning systems. Google has started doing this too under the "Google Cloud" umbrella term; but when you consider the sheer volume of Enterprises being almost forced to upgrade to o365 and Azure Directory- (from their Exchange/AD/sharepoint on-prem installations) you can start to understand why Azure looks as if it's dominating.
- brazzledazzle 8y agoExactly this. Microsoft was brilliant to leverage o365 to not just boost their numbers with Azure AD but also to get a cloud provider effectively approved by a company’s security department in an enterprise “under the radar”. What security team/department is going to say “no” to the only reasonable upgrade path? Even better in a decent sized multi-national this is often done at the global/core/shared service level so you suddenly have a vetted and pre-approved cloud provider at the global level for all of these other operating companies. I view the former as a shady number boost but combined with the latter the only conclusion is that Microsoft is still the cunning strategists we thought they might not be anymore. It’s genius really and not only shows how much they get enterprises but how ruthlessly they’ll take advantage of that knowledge and the enterprise inroads they have.
- zeristor 8y ago"GCP is globally in 4th place behind AWS, Azure and Alibaba cloud." Maybe GCP should be renamed to something beginning with 'A'?
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