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I would give them a bit more wiggle room before giving up. We’re currently living under a monopoly of AWS (GCP is the most serious “competitor”, still far far b
by pm90 5y ago
I would give them a bit more wiggle room before giving up. We’re currently living under a monopoly of AWS (GCP is the most serious “competitor”, still far far behind in market share) and I would love to see more competition in this space.
That said: this is definitely not the kind of behavior I expect from them and I’m hoping there’s a better reason than them not willing to submit their products to an impartial evaluation.
- varsketiz 5y agoYou are forgetting Azure, which is much bigger than GCP.
- pm90 5y agoI’m not forgetting Azure, it’s a deliberate omission because it is not a Tier 1 cloud product. It might be better than OCI or IBM Cloud but it simply does not have the maturity of either AWS or GCP.
- robertlagrant 5y agoInteresting. As someone who's only really used Azure (other than a little GCP) - what's missing?
- latch 5y agoAWS is a monopoly if you're living in a HN bubble. The vast majority of "hosting" (internet or otherwise) doesn't use AWS. Large telco's (Telefonica, AT&T, China Unicom, ...) have numerous data centers. Conglomerates (Tata, ...) have numerous data centers. You have wholesalers (Equinix, Digital Realty, ...). You have dedicated providers (OVH, Hetzner, PhoenixNap, ...). VPS' (DO, Linode, Vultr,...) and shared hosting (GoDaddy, ...) Then you have a lot of private data centers, e.g. I worked at a major bank that had its own datacenters (multiple around the world). Admittedly, these are super small compared to an AWS DC, but there's literally thousands of these around the world (I know for banking and government, but I assume other industries do this too).
- goodpoint 5y agoWrong. Cloudflare introduce another type of monopoly on top of the existing cloud services. A very harmful one - they are trying to centralize the web. And kill Tor, while at it.