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Google is a bad comparison here IMO because Google IS a datacenter company. No different than Amazon... They run datacenters and offer IaaS to customers, and pi
by cheeze 8y ago
Google is a bad comparison here IMO because Google IS a datacenter company. No different than Amazon... They run datacenters and offer IaaS to customers, and piggy back off of that.
I agree with you on Uber and Facebook though.
- carlisle_ 8y agoGoogle wasn't really a cloud provider for like 15 years and hosted their own infrastructure that entire time.
- ndarwincorn 8y agoThat's not exactly fair, the first decade+ of that pre-dates the public cloud.
- kerng 8y agoThe idea to use hosting is much older. Many companies offered services like that even in the 90s with AWS it really scaled up and the quality for hosting then improved across the globe.
- mrep 8y agoDid they offer services like RDS, S3, SNS, SQS, Autoscaling, Route 53, load balancing... because those are what make AWS so valuable.
- kerng 8y agoSQL and Domain Names was very common even in the 90s. The other concepts hadn't really evolved. Even AWS only had EC2 and S3 in the beginning. I'm just trying to relate and point out that Google decided to self host, rather then depend on someone else - which for a business that exponentialy grows is the best way, even today.
- kerng 8y agoTo host your own infra, you dont need to build data centers, etc. Many just rent out physical space in datacenters.
- kerng 8y agoWhy the downvote? I know of multiple companies that went that route.