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I’ve only been using GCP for a few weeks now, so take my opinion with a grain of salt. So far, I really enjoy how the UI seems consistent, compared to AWS wher

by bdibs 8y ago

I’ve only been using GCP for a few weeks now, so take my opinion with a grain of salt. So far, I really enjoy how the UI seems consistent, compared to AWS where different products seem like they are from a completely different service. As for the products themselves, everything just works. For their Kubernetes platform, GKE, they provide an excellent UI to do almost anything. Auto scaling any workloads, deploying new workloads all through the UI (no manual YAML creation), performing rolling updates, it all just works. Their Stackdriver product automatically logs all output from your GKE pods, and can even alert you with a concise summary of crashing errors (I caught a couple panics from a Go service with it). Overall I’d say it’s been great so far, and much cheaper than AWS. I haven’t used Azure in any capacity, so I’m unsure how it would stack up.

threeseed 8y ago
> So far, I really enjoy how the UI seems consistent, compared to AWS where different products seem like they are from a completely different service. There is a reason for this. AWS moves early and moves quickly. Whereas Google may wait until a product is perfectly designed AWS gets it out in beta in one region and then expands from there. And they bring this pace to product improvement which is pretty amazing: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/ https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/
- joshuamorton 8y ago
  I hear the opposite from most people, that gcp moves more quickly and has alpha and beta products and aws doesn't. So this confused me.
  - kenhwang 8y ago
    It just depends on which provider you have an enterprise relationship with. They all have a bunch of closed alpha/betas that you simply need to ask your account manager to join.
  - threeseed 8y ago
    AWS has Preview products which are released to the public and they handle rollout on a region by region basis. AWS has 10x the number of products of GCP and still maintains a rapid pace.

by bdibs 8y ago

threeseed 8y ago

> So far, I really enjoy how the UI seems consistent, compared to AWS where different products seem like they are from a completely different service. There is a reason for this. AWS moves early and moves quickly. Whereas Google may wait until a product is perfectly designed AWS gets it out in beta in one region and then expands from there. And they bring this pace to product improvement which is pretty amazing: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/ https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/

joshuamorton 8y ago
I hear the opposite from most people, that gcp moves more quickly and has alpha and beta products and aws doesn't. So this confused me.
- kenhwang 8y ago
  It just depends on which provider you have an enterprise relationship with. They all have a bunch of closed alpha/betas that you simply need to ask your account manager to join.
- threeseed 8y ago
  AWS has Preview products which are released to the public and they handle rollout on a region by region basis. AWS has 10x the number of products of GCP and still maintains a rapid pace.