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Where I work, they use more and more google services every day, to my chagrin (since I've spent years learning the quirks of AWS). Amazon's solutions can be fi

Where I work, they use more and more google services every day, to my chagrin (since I've spent years learning the quirks of AWS). Amazon's solutions can be fit into various architectures, but are more generalist tools than the BigQuery, DataFlow and BigTable application. Google's solutions are also cheaper and/or easier to work with, for very large data processing.

chrisjc 5y ago
What does this mean? > but are more generalist tools than the BigQuery, DataFlow and BigTable application Doesn't AWS provide similar tools? BigQuery == Redshift DataFlow == Kinesis (Analytics/Flink/EMR-Spark/EMR-BEAM) BigTable == Redshift Spectrum
- Supermancho 5y ago
  Similar in that they are building blocks that you have to tailor to be efficient for your use case. "Kinesis (Analytics/Flink/EMR-Spark/EMR-BEAM)" - this is kinda the point. In AMZ you're building out the dataflow process that fits your use-case and optimizes where you would like, rather than submitting to an existing (Google) design that is optimized+priced for very large dataset.
arecurrence 5y ago
Cloud Service Usage Price matters a lot. I actively move systems off of AWS to save costs. Take Cloudfront as an example. Bunny is half a cent per GB and has no per-request cost. I've seen Cloudfront cost over 20x more. A $10,000 bill instead of $200,000 per month is well worth the engineering work. Btw, Bunny is also $10 flat rate for unlimited image processing... and they only bill the post-processed bandwidth cost. The price of my AWS equivalent for that pipeline was quite the comparison. :)
- tedmiston 5y ago
  I misread your comment as "Bunny" being a GCP service competing with AWS CloudFront. Is Bunny Optimizer (bunny.net) [1] what you are referring to? [1]: https://bunny.net/optimizer/#pricing-details https://bunny.net/optimizer/#pricing-details
  - arecurrence 5y ago
    Ah yeah, sorry. I should have elaborated. Bunny is a CDN provider. They charge half a cent per gigabyte for their Limited Points of Presence tier and 1 cent (or higher depending on the region) for their Many Points of Presence tier https://bunny.net/pricing https://bunny.net/pricing Plus, as you found, $10 for unlimited image processing :) I look forward to the day they have a key value store along with functions at edge. I expect their pricing model to be simply irresistible.

chrisjc 5y ago

What does this mean? > but are more generalist tools than the BigQuery, DataFlow and BigTable application Doesn't AWS provide similar tools? BigQuery == Redshift DataFlow == Kinesis (Analytics/Flink/EMR-Spark/EMR-BEAM) BigTable == Redshift Spectrum

Supermancho 5y ago
Similar in that they are building blocks that you have to tailor to be efficient for your use case. "Kinesis (Analytics/Flink/EMR-Spark/EMR-BEAM)" - this is kinda the point. In AMZ you're building out the dataflow process that fits your use-case and optimizes where you would like, rather than submitting to an existing (Google) design that is optimized+priced for very large dataset.

arecurrence 5y ago

Cloud Service Usage Price matters a lot. I actively move systems off of AWS to save costs. Take Cloudfront as an example. Bunny is half a cent per GB and has no per-request cost. I've seen Cloudfront cost over 20x more. A $10,000 bill instead of $200,000 per month is well worth the engineering work. Btw, Bunny is also $10 flat rate for unlimited image processing... and they only bill the post-processed bandwidth cost. The price of my AWS equivalent for that pipeline was quite the comparison. :)

tedmiston 5y ago
I misread your comment as "Bunny" being a GCP service competing with AWS CloudFront. Is Bunny Optimizer (bunny.net) [1] what you are referring to? [1]: https://bunny.net/optimizer/#pricing-details https://bunny.net/optimizer/#pricing-details
- arecurrence 5y ago
  Ah yeah, sorry. I should have elaborated. Bunny is a CDN provider. They charge half a cent per gigabyte for their Limited Points of Presence tier and 1 cent (or higher depending on the region) for their Many Points of Presence tier https://bunny.net/pricing https://bunny.net/pricing Plus, as you found, $10 for unlimited image processing :) I look forward to the day they have a key value store along with functions at edge. I expect their pricing model to be simply irresistible.