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I'm not saying they are technical arguments. I'm saying they are the same acceptable answers to "why did you choose (not AWS)". Because the platform I chose is

I'm not saying they are technical arguments. I'm saying they are the same acceptable answers to "why did you choose (not AWS)". Because the platform I chose is also part of the foundation of the tech stack we run on.

scarface74 7y ago
Kubernetes - which every cloud provider now offers as a managed service - might win you a few startups but won’t win you many major enterprise companies.
- dodobirdlord 7y ago
  You'd probably be surprised. Kubernetes is a hot enough buzzword that even companies as bizarre as Chick-fil-A are getting on board, with a hilarious architecture. https://medium.com/@cfatechblog/bare-metal-k8s-clustering-at-chick-fil-a-scale-7b0607bd3541 https://medium.com/@cfatechblog/bare-metal-k8s-clustering-at... Edit: Way past the getting-on-board stage, apparently. It had slipped my mind that the article I linked is from 18 months ago and already described an extensive rollout.
  - sciurus 7y ago
    FYI I saw a presentation by the team at CFA after that blog post was written. They said the in-store K8s deployments were only running greenfield, non-production applications. I don't know if that's changed.
  - scarface74 7y ago
    That’s a great anecdote, but small fry when compared to all of the other F500 companies that MS and AWS are able to court by using their thousands of partners that are intimately familiar with enterprise on prem workloads and know how to slowly migrate customers. MS has decades of building relationships with large companies that it can leverage. If Google’s only proposition is that it’s cheaper, any AWS Solution Architect can negotiate lower prices from AWS if they want to secure a client that’s large enough.
- pm90 7y ago
  How do you think major enterprise customers are formed? Also GCP already does have some large enterprise clients. Some of them have had a symbiotic relationship with them, working closely to create the features they need as they scale. That kind of treatment is hard to get with AWS where most enterprises would be small fry by comparison. There are also enterprises that don’t want to be on Amazons stuff for reasons.
  - scarface74 7y ago
    How many hot startups have become “major corporations” in the last 5 years. All you have to do is watch the thousand plus reinvent videos to know that AWS does work with many major companies. They also have an extensive partner network.

scarface74 7y ago

Kubernetes - which every cloud provider now offers as a managed service - might win you a few startups but won’t win you many major enterprise companies.

dodobirdlord 7y ago
You'd probably be surprised. Kubernetes is a hot enough buzzword that even companies as bizarre as Chick-fil-A are getting on board, with a hilarious architecture. https://medium.com/@cfatechblog/bare-metal-k8s-clustering-at-chick-fil-a-scale-7b0607bd3541 https://medium.com/@cfatechblog/bare-metal-k8s-clustering-at... Edit: Way past the getting-on-board stage, apparently. It had slipped my mind that the article I linked is from 18 months ago and already described an extensive rollout.
- sciurus 7y ago
  FYI I saw a presentation by the team at CFA after that blog post was written. They said the in-store K8s deployments were only running greenfield, non-production applications. I don't know if that's changed.
- scarface74 7y ago
  That’s a great anecdote, but small fry when compared to all of the other F500 companies that MS and AWS are able to court by using their thousands of partners that are intimately familiar with enterprise on prem workloads and know how to slowly migrate customers. MS has decades of building relationships with large companies that it can leverage. If Google’s only proposition is that it’s cheaper, any AWS Solution Architect can negotiate lower prices from AWS if they want to secure a client that’s large enough.
pm90 7y ago
How do you think major enterprise customers are formed? Also GCP already does have some large enterprise clients. Some of them have had a symbiotic relationship with them, working closely to create the features they need as they scale. That kind of treatment is hard to get with AWS where most enterprises would be small fry by comparison. There are also enterprises that don’t want to be on Amazons stuff for reasons.
- scarface74 7y ago
  How many hot startups have become “major corporations” in the last 5 years. All you have to do is watch the thousand plus reinvent videos to know that AWS does work with many major companies. They also have an extensive partner network.