The mistakes made by Google Cloud and why they should be larger than AWS today • Hacker News Board

Re: The mistakes made by Google Cloud and why they should be larger than AWS today

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Post by EdwinLarkin » Wed, Dec 30, 2020, 1:33 PM UTC

It's simple really. Google does not make products that people want to buy. They make products that people want to/have to use.

Amazon understands the people that actually want to pay for products and is able to capture that market.

GCP is designed by googlers for googlers.

Re: The mistakes made by Google Cloud and why they should be larger than AWS today

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Post by MaxBarraclough » Wed, Dec 30, 2020, 3:10 PM UTC

shahmeer_khan wrote: post #2

Interesting but don't you think google has the advantage of being the major platform and they can learn from their mistakes without paying for them. While competitors have to be more careful

Compared to who? The article is about how/why AWS is bigger than GCP.

Re: The mistakes made by Google Cloud and why they should be larger than AWS today

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Post by billconan » Wed, Dec 30, 2020, 3:47 PM UTC

google cloud’s ui is pretty poor in my opinion. Hard to find settings, unless you google for docs/help first.

Re: The mistakes made by Google Cloud and why they should be larger than AWS today

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Post by m23khan » Wed, Dec 30, 2020, 4:13 PM UTC

All the technical details aside,

Microsoft under Bill Gates, Apple under Steve Jobs, Amazon/AWS under Jeff Bazos, and Tesla under Musk. To a somewhat lesser extent - Alibaba under Jack Ma, Oracle under Larry Ellison and Dell under Michael Dell.

You see a trend here? I reckon there is a connection between how well a Tech Company's products are received by the consumers based on whether it has an identified / globally recognized, Billionaire Head? I don't know but that's what came to my mind.

Sure, Jobs is not there any more nor is Gates the head of Microsoft but their legacy certainly carries on with the consumers.

Re: The mistakes made by Google Cloud and why they should be larger than AWS today

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Post by ff333ttee » Wed, Dec 30, 2020, 4:16 PM UTC

Google increased their map-prices by 1400% in one night and Firebase-prices were also massively increased... Google also deprecated 223 of their services... Many other bad things happen. I don't trust them and will not give them a penny.

Re: The mistakes made by Google Cloud and why they should be larger than AWS today

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Post by kolpator » Wed, Dec 30, 2020, 6:12 PM UTC

dude, Three Letter Acronyms simply raped whole article....

Re: The mistakes made by Google Cloud and why they should be larger than AWS today

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Post by sunstone » Wed, Dec 30, 2020, 8:39 PM UTC

The article doesn't mention lock in. When I was looking at GAE in the early days I gave it a pass just because of this. I wanted a regular linux cloud server that I could move my app to another provider with very few problems if I wanted to. GAE would be ok for small brochure sites with maybe a tiny database but anything bigger and I would start to get cold feet.

Re: The mistakes made by Google Cloud and why they should be larger than AWS today

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Post by pasttense01 » Wed, Dec 30, 2020, 9:16 PM UTC

So when do posters here expect Google will kill it?

Re: The mistakes made by Google Cloud and why they should be larger than AWS today

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Post by rawgabbit » Wed, Dec 30, 2020, 9:53 PM UTC

The way the article was written fits the common perception of Google. It was written for insiders who understood Google’s lingua franca. It didn’t offer any insight to the outsider other than to make them feel small for not being one of the cool kids.

Re: The mistakes made by Google Cloud and why they should be larger than AWS today

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Post by bromonkey » Wed, Dec 30, 2020, 10:03 PM UTC

What's "GCP @<150M ARR & left @~4B (excld GSuite.)" mean for those of us that don't speak google?