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   by vgt 10y ago

   I actually was not comparing Google to Amazon here, apologies if you got that from my post. I was mostly responding to the parent, whose argument was that Google is so much more inexpensive than AWS because Google doesn't invest in sup
2. 272.▲
   by vgt 10y ago

   I agree, size of support org is probably not directly correlated to quality. I was mostly responding to parent, who made the argument that Google can afford to be inexpensive due to lack of investment in the support org. I do assure you tha
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   by vgt 10y ago

   Both technologies are clearly very compelling to users. This is a bit outside of my expertise, but that page mainly points out that DynamoDB supports 3 more language-specific SDKs, while lacking ACID and what appears to be native cross-regi
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   by vgt 10y ago

   merb, I apologize for getting a little heated. I saw an AWS employee attack a customer opinion (without disclosing their employer), and I wanted to set things right. On the feedback, I hear you. Please reach out to me offline for a further
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   by vgt 10y ago

   Appreciate your feedback very much, and apologize if my opinions were a little too bombastic themselves. I saw an AWS employee disparage a customer opinion, without disclosing their allegiances, and wanted to set things right :) For what it
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   by vgt 10y ago

   You're right, I crossed the line and sincerely apologize. I post here on my own time, and represent my views only. I recently noticed that AWS employees throw (sometimes not so) subtle shade at their competitors on HN without disclosin
7. 277.▲
   by vgt 10y ago

   Again, a weird thing for an AWS employee to say about an opinion from an AWS customer and an AWS platinum partner, and then accuse them of expressing those opinions due to monetary compensation.
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   by vgt 10y ago

   I work with lots of fairly senior ex-AWS folks who shudder at the memories. You also tend not to address the merits of the post, instead using ad-hominem and misdirection. I'm actually noticing a pattern here :)
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   by vgt 10y ago

   You are currently employed by AWS, but I don't see a history of you working at Google. A "bias" disclosure would be helpful here. (work at Google Cloud and don't get paid to post on HN)
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    by vgt 10y ago

    >>It's faster, cheaper, more configurable. The documentation is actually comprehensible. >The docs have more 404s than trumps twitter account... who payed/paid you to write this? (ranman works at AWS..and talking to an AW
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    by vgt 10y ago

    I'm curious if you speak from experience, or from the one article, where a customer let ports open, his VM was taken over by hackers, and proceeded to DDOS the world :)
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    by vgt 10y ago

    That's unacceptable anywhere. I know Google support spends gobs of time quantifying customer success and happiness, gets measured and rewarded by these numbers. Nature of support anywhere is that sadly you'll always have some folk
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    by vgt 10y ago

    Thanks - GCP doesn't match 1:1 on any of those. However, there are alternative (and for many use cases much better) ways on Google. There's PubSub, Cloud Logging, Firebase (including Firebase Messaging), and all 3 don't reall
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    by vgt 10y ago

    Sorry if I came off defense. I said that it's a valid concern in this thread, should have been more clear I suppose.
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    by vgt 10y ago

    I agree, you can go into higher granularity a-la-carte on both fronts.. but I don't think "spot pricing" is that, and neither are local SSD + magnetic storage (take a look at my local SSD post in this thread).
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    by vgt 10y ago

    hit me up, i'll connect you with some folks
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    by vgt 10y ago

    I'm not sure where I'm being inconsistent. Both AWS and Google have broad spectrum of fully managed services. There are places where Google lacks and AWS doesn't, and there are places where Google is superior, or where AWS la
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    by vgt 10y ago

    You bring up a good point. Amazon does give you a better "vertical scaling" story. I'll still challenge you on the "breadth" when it comes to EC2 - the philosophy is just very different. Why do you need a "IO o
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    by vgt 10y ago

    Familiarity with one way of doing things is a reasonable point. To assist here a little our SA's put together this: https://cloud.google.com/docs/compare/aws/
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    by vgt 10y ago

    Thanks!
21. 291.▲
    by vgt 10y ago

    Yup, both leverage partners where their offerings are not present.
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    by vgt 10y ago

    Great point. I think it's a matter of different philosophies, and both are great for customers! - AWS gives you specific usage allotments per-month for specific services. - Google gives you $300 cash for 2 months to use however you ple
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    by vgt 10y ago

    Google has Bigtable and Datastore. Bigtable can be thought of as an events database, and Datastore is entities. Both very very compelling for DynamoDB users. Google's Lambda equivalent is currently in Alpha. That said, there are bits l
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    by vgt 10y ago

    This is the one that comes up. Hit me up offline. Also, you can always use any number of partners that provide this functionality. Let me know if there are any others.
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    by vgt 10y ago

    Hit me up offline - this is one gap Google's had, I admit. On the other hand, you've always been able to run managed postgres through a partner. Let me know if there are any others that you feel strongly about?
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    by vgt 10y ago

    I would like to hear what platform bits of AWS that you find lacking in Google Cloud. Google's ecosystem of fully managed services is very rich broad and compelling, and in many ways far ahead of competition. (work on Google Cloud but
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    by vgt 10y ago

    I would like to hear what platform bits of AWS that you find lacking in Google Cloud. Google's ecosystem of fully managed services is very rich broad and compelling, and in many ways far ahead of competition. (work on Google Cloud but
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    by vgt 10y ago

    Our support folks can comment here, but I would disagree with that point. Our support org is massive, there are varying tiers levels of Support SCE/CRE/SRE/SWE-level of support, all the way up to [0]. I'll also comment t
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    by vgt 10y ago

    Amazon has a very broad offering of great fully managed services, but Google's no slouch. In fact, many of Google's offerings can be very compelling - BigQuery, Bigtable, CloudML, PubSub, GKE to name a few. Just in the "only
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    by vgt 10y ago

    I think there's a better way to think about economies of scale (looking at it through the lens of Google Cloud). Let's quantify your workload as "resource-seconds", what many of Google's services (and some AWS servi