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Well GCP is mostly targeting highly sophisticated companies who need low cost but don’t need much handholding. Microsoft is on the opposite end. Amazon is in be
by anbop 8y ago
Well GCP is mostly targeting highly sophisticated companies who need low cost but don’t need much handholding. Microsoft is on the opposite end. Amazon is in between.
Google is DigiKey, Amazon is Adafruit, and Microsoft is Best Buy.
- Twirrim 8y agoThat's a strategy that is clearly not working out for them. Based on: https://www.skyhighnetworks.com/cloud-security-blog/microsoft-azure-closes-iaas-adoption-gap-with-amazon-aws/ https://www.skyhighnetworks.com/cloud-security-blog/microsof... AWS holds 41% of the market. Azure 29.4%. GCP 3%. So barely more than a tenth of the second place cloud's size. For a company with Google's brand recognition, and a cloud platform that has been going for that long, that's not great market penetration.
- imhoguy 8y agoWow, I thought GCP is much more before Azure, but I am a Linux dev so I understand my bias now.
- johannes1234321 8y agoMind that for instance MSFT includes diffrent SaaS offerings like Office 356 and all their business software (to which neither Amazon or Google have competing offerings) in their numbers on cloud sales. IaaS/PaaS is just a part of it.
- opportune 8y agoGoogle has G suite no?
- pgeorgi 8y agoI think GP packed two things into a single sentence: Microsoft adds Office 365 etc to Cloud numbers, G Suite is a separate line item. Also, Microsoft has other products that neither Amazon nor Google even provide an equivalent for (such as Dynamics NAV), also added to Cloud numbers.
- jpatokal 8y agoThat report is estimating "application workloads" and doesn't explain how it comes up with that number. Here's another analyst report from Feb 2019 that estimates shares based on dollars of revenue at 32.2%, 16.5% and 9.5% respectively. https://www.canalys.com/newsroom/cloud-market-share-q4-2018-and-full-year-2018 https://www.canalys.com/newsroom/cloud-market-share-q4-2018-...
- arethuza 8y agoIs that including Microsoft's SaaS products in the total? (e.g. Office 365, Dynamics 365 etc.)
- lokedhs 8y agoPerhaps people are not convinced Google is committed? I wouldn't be surprised to hear that they decided to simply shut down their cloud efforts. I'm wondering if their practice of dropping products isn't coming back to bite them.
- chasd00 8y agoDoes AWS include amazon.com as a customer and therefore book resources used by amazon.com as license revenue? Doesn't Azure do that with Office 365?
- user5994461 8y agoGCP is half the costs of AWS. Azure is more expensive than both but I don't have enough experience with it to judge exactly by how much. Any report comparing the 3 purely based on revenues should be taken as a joke.
- dekhn 8y agothe statement "GCP is half the cost of AWS" makes no sense at all. What product? What discounts?
- user5994461 8y agoInstance and storage. Standard price with no discount.
- dekhn 8y agoI cannot recapitulate your claim: google is at the least 80% the price of AWS across both instances and storage, given a good faith, reasonable analysis (given the differences in config types and feature sets in the two services).
- user5994461 8y agoThis article from 2016 has good figures. Not much changed since then but could use a refresh with the newer instance types. https://thehftguy.com/2016/11/18/google-cloud-is-50-cheaper-than-aws/ https://thehftguy.com/2016/11/18/google-cloud-is-50-cheaper-... The basic instance n1-standard-1 vs c5.large is 80% more expensive on AWS. A shame AWS doesn't provide single core instances. Google gives 30% discount automatically on instances running for a full month. AWS has no such thing. That's enough to put them in different league. Anything AWS involving SSD or provisioned IOPS is abusively priced whereas Google simply has better performance on network storage and can attach any amount of local SSD to any instance.