I think OP means GCP: Google Cloud Platform. There's GCE, Google Compute Engine, as part of GCP. GCE is also different from another GCP product Container Engine.
Ask HN: Which cloud provider to use in 2016? AWS or GCE?
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#22Use Spinnaker and chose both or decide later. http://www.spinnaker.io/
the 1-click GCE image for spinnaker is estimated to cost ~$200 per month; not much next to payroll but surprisingly beefy.
Re: Ask HN: Which cloud provider to use in 2016? AWS or GCE?
#23Are they even comparable? AWS offers full virtual machines. I was under the impression that GCE offers a more high level platform where you run your code in their proprietery environment? If I am not mistaken, using GCE means you are locked in and cannot migrate away easily. That's why I never looked into it closely. I don't want to be at the mercy of a provider.
My guess is OP meant to say AWS vs GCP (Google Cloud Platform) instead of GCE (Google Compute Engine).
That's my read as well. Google has a bit of a hurdle to overcome in explaining their acronyms. AWS has a 10-year head start.
Re: Ask HN: Which cloud provider to use in 2016? AWS or GCE?
#24I'd use multiple smaller providers, preferably non-US ones when possible.
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#25AWS, hands down. They're years ahead, and the support is just as lousy.
Serious question, when would you need to use support? I always wonder that when people say Microsoft is better than Linux because it has support, but actually I've never had a time when I needed Linux support.....
I've never got much use out of AWS support for single-server installations, and my natural inclination is just to let things ride or work around them anyway. Once you are committing yourself to SLAs, and you've hired someone a bit shoutier to keep operations running they will suddenly find a lot more things to call up and try to get fixed, or at least get a story on why they went wrong and what we can do to mitigate. As you start to spend the sorts of money where the Enterprise support is economical it gets very useful indeed, with people to call who can actually chase down problems and make things happen.
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#26AWS, hands down. They're years ahead, and the support is just as lousy.
Serious question, when would you need to use support? I always wonder that when people say Microsoft is better than Linux because it has support, but actually I've never had a time when I needed Linux support.....
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#27How about using https://cloud.google.com/storage/ for personal backup (photos, videos, files..)?
It seems much less expensive than paying a fee for a big Google Drive. The bandwidth needed for GCStorage would be minimum (just uploading from time to time)
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#28I work with 40+ partner companies, and they are all using AWS. Moving big data sets around is cheap and super easy. And, it's not been very expensive to process large data sets on AWS. On average, I crunch through 20 TiB for like $50 a pop.
Given that no company that I work with uses Google's cloud, I'm curious who is using it. They're marking hard obviously. Makes me wonder what's an ad and what's not.
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#29I'd go for AWS since it has already proven its trustability, stability and usability in the context of daily routine/providing solid solutions for hosting high access-content.
GCE is interesting however, I'll definitely keep that in mind for future "testing" but at the moment I'd take AWS as my "out of the box"-solution.
Re: Ask HN: Which cloud provider to use in 2016? AWS or GCE?
#30If you have to pick one, GCE hands down. AWS has more features but is more expensive and more operationally complex. GCE may have less features, but the ones it has are better thought out and the user experience is in a league of it's own. Also keep in mind that if for some reason you want to take advantage of something like Amazon's video transcoding service, nothing says you have to build 100% of your app on a sing…
Also keep in mind that when you are inside of a cloud (or at least a region within a cloud) you typically do not pay fees between things like EC2 and S3, for example. If you were to build parts of your infra on AWS and other parts on GCE you would pay for data to go between those deployments.