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Why the Google Cloud / CTO association? I’m not at that level in my career, but I have had very negative issues with Google, their product graveyard, and their

Why the Google Cloud / CTO association? I’m not at that level in my career, but I have had very negative issues with Google, their product graveyard, and their lacking of human support for serious issues for paid offerings. I would not put my business in their hands, ever.

trenchpilgrim 1y ago
> their lacking of human support for serious issues for paid offerings. Turns out this problem disappears if you spend enough money. GCP does a _lot_ of things as well or better than AWS. I particularly mostly like their IAM model (the entire stack including their nice managed identity implementation and use of public key cryptography instead of API keys) and how "projects" (cloud accounts) can inherit properties in a hierarchy.
dijit 1y ago
They have a very long deprecation policy for anything under the actual “Cloud” banner. Their solutions are more technically sound, their API and UX significantly more consistent; they make the billing system available through the same interfaces that you use for other data processing on the platform. I wrote a more detailed diatribe on the failings of other providers[0]; but largely the “correctness”, “consistency” are the main reasons. For example their IAM actually works for everything, including GKE pods; and they don’t oversubscribe and try to align VMs to NUMA zones (AWS didn’t do that when I last checked, Azure still doesn’t even try). Also, as a previous customer; I got much better support from Google than I ever got from AWS; but this is a very variable thing depending on your size, where you are and who your TAM is. In the games industry in Sweden its seriously 10/10- I even talked to the hypervisor, storage and SDN/Network teams directly. [0]: https://blog.dijit.sh/gcp-the-only-good-cloud/ https://blog.dijit.sh/gcp-the-only-good-cloud/
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- jiggawatts 1y ago
  The only aspects that Azure doesn’t have is the NUMA alignment and good support. Azure also has consistent RBAC model that integrates with Kubernetes, PaaS, and extends out to desktop apps like Office and Visual Studio. Unlike AWS, Azure also has a very consistent UI with a single pane of glass and a single API (ARM).

trenchpilgrim 1y ago

> their lacking of human support for serious issues for paid offerings. Turns out this problem disappears if you spend enough money. GCP does a _lot_ of things as well or better than AWS. I particularly mostly like their IAM model (the entire stack including their nice managed identity implementation and use of public key cryptography instead of API keys) and how "projects" (cloud accounts) can inherit properties in a hierarchy.

dijit 1y ago

They have a very long deprecation policy for anything under the actual “Cloud” banner. Their solutions are more technically sound, their API and UX significantly more consistent; they make the billing system available through the same interfaces that you use for other data processing on the platform. I wrote a more detailed diatribe on the failings of other providers[0]; but largely the “correctness”, “consistency” are the main reasons. For example their IAM actually works for everything, including GKE pods; and they don’t oversubscribe and try to align VMs to NUMA zones (AWS didn’t do that when I last checked, Azure still doesn’t even try). Also, as a previous customer; I got much better support from Google than I ever got from AWS; but this is a very variable thing depending on your size, where you are and who your TAM is. In the games industry in Sweden its seriously 10/10- I even talked to the hypervisor, storage and SDN/Network teams directly. [0]: https://blog.dijit.sh/gcp-the-only-good-cloud/ https://blog.dijit.sh/gcp-the-only-good-cloud/

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jiggawatts 1y ago
The only aspects that Azure doesn’t have is the NUMA alignment and good support. Azure also has consistent RBAC model that integrates with Kubernetes, PaaS, and extends out to desktop apps like Office and Visual Studio. Unlike AWS, Azure also has a very consistent UI with a single pane of glass and a single API (ARM).