Many ways where GCP excels over AWS
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Many ways where GCP excels over AWS
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Re: Many ways where GCP excels over AWS
#2FWIW, I find the AWS UI much better than the GCP interface. AWS feels much faster to navigate, even though GCP has an SPA-like design, like its other B2B tools.
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#3I thought this would have mentioned live migration, which honestly solves a major pain point in aws.
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#4As someone that works solely in a GCP environment for work, I couldn't agree more. GCP products do "just work", but if I had to nitpick, it's that some of their services don't have complete terraform modules (looking at you IAP), but outside of that, their pricing is reasonable, documentation is solid, and we're really happy we ended up going the GCP route.
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#5This article doesn't even mention one of my favorite tools on GCP which is Dataflow. It's really easy to build batch and streaming workflows that can be used for data and machine learning pipelines. It really shows how well the different services within GCP are integrated, since it's trivial to set up PubSub or BigQuery as sources and sinks.
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#6I thought this would have mentioned live migration, which honestly solves a major pain point in aws.
it does not. if you need live migration your software is poorly engineered. the only use case for this is a legacy app that you cannot move away from - but in that case i doubt you’re in the cloud
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#7yeah no.
aws excels at giving you the building blocks and making sure those building blocks work.
unless you’re working at a small scale that’s what you want.
for all the crap aws gets, the documentation is there, the tutorials are there, the services make sense.
gcp is probably going to be around for a while, but i would not bet the farm on it.
in the cloud, today, it’s either aws or azure
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#8I thought this would have mentioned live migration, which honestly solves a major pain point in aws.
it does not. if you need live migration your software is poorly engineered. the only use case for this is a legacy app that you cannot move away from - but in that case i doubt you’re in the cloud
Imagine you running large database workload and AWS say you need reboot because underlying hardware start having issue.
Live migration can help you in that case.
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#9FWIW, I find the AWS UI much better than the GCP interface. AWS feels much faster to navigate, even though GCP has an SPA-like design, like its other B2B tools.
You know I have to agree with you that AWS UI is more responsive, the UI in GCP is a bit heavy on the JS and sometimes can make the CPU spin. However due to all the reasons stated in the article, I would take that downside any day, twice.
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#10I thought this would have mentioned live migration, which honestly solves a major pain point in aws.
it does not. if you need live migration your software is poorly engineered. the only use case for this is a legacy app that you cannot move away from - but in that case i doubt you’re in the cloud
I don’t disagree, but as much as this is said manny legacy workloads handle this poorly, and many new workload do just as badly.