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Re: Compare AWS and Azure Services to Google Cloud

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Post by nocommandline »

When I first started dabbling into trying to do something on my own, Google App Engine (GAE) seemed the easiest to understand and get off the ground. And the fact that everything 'just worked' and didn't require setting up stuff was awesome in my opinion. GAE Launcher was the cherry on the cake which is why it was such a bummer when they deprecated it (and this led to my current side project - https://nocommandline.com - which is a replacement for GAE Launcher).

I was initially worried GAE wouldn't survive but finding out that Khan Academy is hosted on GAE [1] gave me confidence of its longevity.

I once tried looking at AWS and it took me awhile to figure out they had a PaaS and trying to set it up essentially gave me a headache (keep in mind that I'm not a 9-5 programmer).

1. https://cloud.google.com/customers/khan-academy

Re: Compare AWS and Azure Services to Google Cloud

#42

Post by yukai »

richards wrote: post #3
count wrote: post #2

"Anthos clusters on AWS" No equivalent alternative. Uh. Really, no Anthos on AWS equivalent on Azure? Or AWS? Boy, they're really missing that managed Kubernetes cluster game. Maybe I'm just dense, having only been doing this cloud thing for a decade or so, but this table seems...misleading or just wrong in so many ways.

Keeping scrolling! Under GKE (managed Kubernetes), you see the call outs to EKS and AKS, respectively. The Anthos point is that other clouds don't offer their k8s stacks as supported options on other clouds. If you see things you find wrong in the table, let me know. Disclaimer: I work in product management at Google Cloud

CloudBuild, CloudDeploy, CloudPipelines

guess it should be CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, CodePipeline

Re: Compare AWS and Azure Services to Google Cloud

#43

Post by pkulak »

NDizzle wrote: post #18
franklyt wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Stadia is a huge project, backed by google. I think it has “canary in the coal mine” features. It does want to be an enterprise service, eventually.

We'll see how it goes with Stadia. I think it's a fairly terrible product. Google doesn't keep things like it alive for very long.

Stadia is the best streaming game service there is. People just don't want that product.

Re: Compare AWS and Azure Services to Google Cloud

#45

Post by pkulak »

Rantenki wrote: post #33

Every time I am tempted to use Google Cloud, I wander over to https://killedbygoogle.com/ and regain my senses. I am not saying that Google is going to kill core product offerings like K8S... what I am saying is that they lack focus, and change direction without regard for their customers. That, coupled with their famously bad support means that I can't sleep at night with the confidence that I can build a complex pr…

Oh just get your Google account shut down with zero warning and loose everything forever.

Re: Compare AWS and Azure Services to Google Cloud

#47

Post by sneak »

nocommandline wrote: post #41

When I first started dabbling into trying to do something on my own, Google App Engine (GAE) seemed the easiest to understand and get off the ground. And the fact that everything 'just worked' and didn't require setting up stuff was awesome in my opinion. GAE Launcher was the cherry on the cake which is why it was such a bummer when they deprecated it (and this led to my current side project - https://nocommandline.c…

It astounds me to this day that AWS doesn't have a heroku-style "five clicks to have a github repo deploying at a url" PaaS offerring.

Beanstalk ain't it, and they cloned DO's "create a VM wizard" (Lightsail) but still no simple GitHub oauth webhook build/deploy.

PaaS is such a great and convenient model. It seems a major oversight to me on AWS's part.

Re: Compare AWS and Azure Services to Google Cloud

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Post by Larrikin »

Johnny555 wrote: post #22
thedevelopnik wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I love Google’s Cloud services. I think in many ways they have the best product. I also worked somewhere where we made a million dollar commit. We had to get support through a VAR because Google basically doesn’t offer support. We basically paid someone else to file tickets that got dismissive responses while we had prod meltdown. They’re also price competitive. I was going to go there again in my current position in…

In what ways is Google the best product if you had a prod meltdown and couldn't get support, and when you wanted to increase your use of GCS at another job, you were unable to do so?

I read it as completely steeped in sarcasm

Re: Compare AWS and Azure Services to Google Cloud

#49

Post by sprite »

pkulak wrote: post #45
Rantenki wrote: post #33

Every time I am tempted to use Google Cloud, I wander over to https://killedbygoogle.com/ and regain my senses. I am not saying that Google is going to kill core product offerings like K8S... what I am saying is that they lack focus, and change direction without regard for their customers. That, coupled with their famously bad support means that I can't sleep at night with the confidence that I can build a complex pr…

Oh just get your Google account shut down with zero warning and loose everything forever.

This is and the lack of human support is the reason I w ill never host anything with Google ever.

Re: Compare AWS and Azure Services to Google Cloud

#50

Post by wodenokoto »

nocommandline wrote: post #41

When I first started dabbling into trying to do something on my own, Google App Engine (GAE) seemed the easiest to understand and get off the ground. And the fact that everything 'just worked' and didn't require setting up stuff was awesome in my opinion. GAE Launcher was the cherry on the cake which is why it was such a bummer when they deprecated it (and this led to my current side project - https://nocommandline.c…

Isn’t Snapchat also running on GAE ?
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