> This is just for fun. There is NO SLA. It might be turned off at any time! Google service confirmed!
True.
Google Cloud Platform’s Pi API – With access to 750B digits of Pi
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#54Love that the piano works as a normal piano!
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#55I'm calling this: after attending Google Cloud Next last week, and seeing the huge improvements to GCP in the last 18 months, I am supremely confident that AWS should be worried about Google as a legitimate competitor. $GOOG is betting big on GCP, and they are executing at a very high level releasing iterative products and new features. I'm recommending GCP for all my clients (shameless plug https://elasticbyte.net )…
Most folks on HN are part of the startup crowd, and what that crowd misses is that while GCP is technically superior in every way, they have no idea how to sell to an enterprise. Google's sales method is, "There's the docs, good luck". Enterprises don't like that. They like to be hand held, they like lots of humans taking them out for lunches and dinners. So far Google has not shown any inclination that they know how…
This is why they brought on Diane Greene who was the founder/CEO of VMWare. She clearly understands enterprise sales, has staffed up and merged departments appropriately and it's starting to show in everything from marketing to the support interactions.
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#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Also, they don't have a sales force like Amazon. A bunch of non-engineer humans who do nothing but convince other people to buy their product. Here's the catch, the "bunch of non-engineer humans" as you called them are not stupid though. All around these people are watching the landscape and market. They are aware that GCP has a superior pricing structure and can be up to 50% cheaper[1]. Therefore my theory is that…
"The numbers given in this article do not account for any AWS reservation. However, they all account for Google sustained use discount (30% automatic discount on instances that ran for the entire month)." I'll never understand why people keep referencing that 50% cheaper article. They take into account the 30% monthly discount from Google, but ignore the 47% discount I currently get from Amazon by reserving my instan…
Why? RI's require upfront purchasing, sustained use doesn't. So the comparison is valid because it's comparing on-demand instances from both providers, and Google comes out cheaper.
Otherwise you can say anything has better pricing because you signed a big volume discount upfront, whether you're buying cloud VMs or tires.
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#57I'm calling this: after attending Google Cloud Next last week, and seeing the huge improvements to GCP in the last 18 months, I am supremely confident that AWS should be worried about Google as a legitimate competitor. $GOOG is betting big on GCP, and they are executing at a very high level releasing iterative products and new features. I'm recommending GCP for all my clients (shameless plug https://elasticbyte.net )…
Most folks on HN are part of the startup crowd, and what that crowd misses is that while GCP is technically superior in every way, they have no idea how to sell to an enterprise. Google's sales method is, "There's the docs, good luck". Enterprises don't like that. They like to be hand held, they like lots of humans taking them out for lunches and dinners. So far Google has not shown any inclination that they know how…
There was an event recently at Google Munich where they offered a whole day of free Google Cloud training. I couldn't attend, so I can't comment on the quality.
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#58Here's the requisite cynical comment lamenting the death of "standards". They could easily have implemented RFC 3091 [0], but instead they chose to create yet another proprietary API with vendor lock in, just as cloud service providers love to do. [0]: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3091 /s
Mentioned above RFC specifies port number 314159 which is greater than possible max 65535. So once again unrealistic standards that does not work force people to invent something sane.
/s
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#59Here's the requisite cynical comment lamenting the death of "standards". They could easily have implemented RFC 3091 [0], but instead they chose to create yet another proprietary API with vendor lock in, just as cloud service providers love to do. [0]: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3091 /s
Mentioned above RFC specifies port number 314159 which is greater than possible max 65535. So once again unrealistic standards that does not work force people to invent something sane. /s
That is only a problem if you insist that Windows 3.1 is the best operating system in existence and if you are therefore unwilling to upgrade to Windows 95. The future is 32 bit, move on.
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#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
> So far Google has not shown any inclination that they know how to enterprise, and in fact it's fairly counter-cultural for them. While traditionally true with Google Products, I disagree with Cloud. Did you attend Google Cloud Next? Trust me, they are focusing on enterprises. Their support has improved significantly and they are focusing on business cases (costs, management, audit, security). I am certain the Googl…
I did attend briefly, and I got a run down from some enterprise folks. They said Google appears to be thinking about making an effort towards enterprise, but they aren't there yet. Also, they don't have a sales force like Amazon. A bunch of non-engineer humans who do nothing but convince other people to buy their product. They are still trying to solve human problems with engineering, and sales is a tough nut to crac…
GCP has a sales force - one can debate their relative sophistication or effectiveness compared to Amazon, but Diane Greene has brought in a bunch of ex-VMware leadership to run the sales, presales, and consulting organizations, and they definitely understand enterprise sales.
Amazon just has some additional experience from doing it for longer.