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Ask HN: Why is GCP not as used as AWS/Azure?

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Re: Ask HN: Why is GCP not as used as AWS/Azure?

#21
Google doesn't understand Enterprise. They expect enterprises to use features or solutions that they think is the best way or highway. AWS/Azure bends their back to introduce whatever features enterprise needs.

Next is poor support. I worked in a team that used DialogFlow enterprise for a voice app. The NLP engine was way way better than Alexa. But if you face an issue their enterprise support will tell you to post in StackOverflow !! As an example of why they don't get enterprise, DialogFlow didn't support mTLS for authentication and had no plans to build that feature.

Re: Ask HN: Why is GCP not as used as AWS/Azure?

#22
Go look up how to create a load balancer on gcp. Last I looked there were six pages none of them simple and clear. I just want to know how to create one. It’s one simple thing. The essential part of any cloud service.

Now go read the aws documentation on an ALB. One page, this is how you create one and this is how you use it.

Azure on the other hand arrived late with a spectacular business plan. “You already pay me for software, cloud is part of that”. They won enterprise cloud in the blink of an eye.

Meanwhile Gcp wrestles with writing task oriented documentation, easy things are obscure or weird. (Compare security groups at aws with gcp, now look again. You didn’t get it the first time ) also if you’re designing a service there’ll be some critical thing that just doesn’t work. The old thing is deprecated the new thing is beta. (You fool! Don’t use beta things in production! Oh sorry there’s the non beta thing I can use? There isn’t one) or the feature you need to complete your task will never arrive because there’s a pissing march between gcp and k8s over who’s job it is to make the ingress work as desired.

Also, as others have said their support is garbage (I found a customer evangelist who was amazing if I could wait 3 days to get a response)

Re: Ask HN: Why is GCP not as used as AWS/Azure?

#24
post #12

IMO, lot of services are not matured enough. For eg: Changing roles or even a security group from GKE/Nodepool requires nodepool replacement. We need to take care of the complete node draining and adding the new nodepool. I too agree that GCP doesn't take customer feedbacks like AWS do.

I missed this, can you elaborate? I see that hot swapping the identity of a node pool may be difficult, but it's weird that you can't change the firewall rules.

We can add new rules to existing network tags(security groups). However, Adding new network tags to node pool require node-pool replacement at this time. That's pretty wierd.
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