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I think GCP is better than AWS (2020)

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Re: I think GCP is better than AWS (2020)

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Post by firebaze »

a.k.a. Freedom of thought. Warning: extremely large wall of text waiting for you.

On a more serious note: I, and most of the business I work for, value stability over hype. Skip to the almost last paragraph "Fear that GCP may be abandoned by Google", if that is of interest to you :)

Re: I think GCP is better than AWS (2020)

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Post by verdverm »

firebaze wrote: post #2

a.k.a. Freedom of thought. Warning: extremely large wall of text waiting for you. On a more serious note: I, and most of the business I work for, value stability over hype. Skip to the almost last paragraph "Fear that GCP may be abandoned by Google", if that is of interest to you :)

this is a rather inaccurate description of the article

not a wall of text, the abandoned part is in the middle, not the end

GCP has more uptime than AWS, and is stable, not sure what you are insinuating with "value stability over hype", the businesses I work with leave AWS for GCP for (1) cost savings (2) developer experience

it hits many of my points for choosing GCP over AWS

Re: I think GCP is better than AWS (2020)

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Post by firebaze »

verdverm wrote: post #3
firebaze wrote: post #2

a.k.a. Freedom of thought. Warning: extremely large wall of text waiting for you. On a more serious note: I, and most of the business I work for, value stability over hype. Skip to the almost last paragraph "Fear that GCP may be abandoned by Google", if that is of interest to you :)

this is a rather inaccurate description of the article not a wall of text, the abandoned part is in the middle, not the end GCP has more uptime than AWS, and is stable, not sure what you are insinuating with "value stability over hype", the businesses I work with leave AWS for GCP for (1) cost savings (2) developer experience it hits many of my points for choosing GCP over AWS

You're obviously right. Have my upvote for the well founded, substantial answer.

Re: I think GCP is better than AWS (2020)

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Post by esafak »

Does anyone have recent experience with both? I'm in the market, for a startup, and I need to decide. My priorities are the data warehouse (BigQuery vs. Redshift) and ML (Vertex AI vs. SageMaker).

This article is three years old. Vertex did not even exist then.

Re: I think GCP is better than AWS (2020)

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Post by craigmcnamara »

I find the GCP documentation to be lacking compared to AWS. Specifically while using GCP with Terraform I hit more frustrating nonsense error messages with little to no google hits or undocumented behavior around IAM config compared to my experience doing similar things on AWS.

Re: I think GCP is better than AWS (2020)

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Post by notfried »

I don't buy the article's argument around the "Fear that GCP may be abandoned by Google". Yes, it is highly unlikely that Google will wake-up one day and announce a deprecation day for GCP, like they did with dozens of other products. What is not unlikely though is that they under-invest in it compared to AWS, and being a 2nd or 3rd player, they would fall behind in products and/or reliability, unable to compete on price or features due to better economies of scale of the competitors.

Before Google kills products, they lose interest in them.

Re: I think GCP is better than AWS (2020)

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Post by theshrike79 »

With even a medium level investment in AWS, I can get actual human people from Amazon on my company Slack on a channel and I can talk to them directly. I can get them to fly to our office to train people or workshop on how to use the resources more effectively.

On GCP I get some AI bot that doesn't answer anything and if I anger it by accident, my account and my business is gone. Then my only option is getting on the HN front page to get some help.

Re: I think GCP is better than AWS (2020)

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Post by firebaze »

notfried wrote: post #7

I don't buy the article's argument around the "Fear that GCP may be abandoned by Google". Yes, it is highly unlikely that Google will wake-up one day and announce a deprecation day for GCP, like they did with dozens of other products. What is not unlikely though is that they under-invest in it compared to AWS, and being a 2nd or 3rd player, they would fall behind in products and/or reliability, unable to compete on p…

It's not highly unlikely. Google has so much ad money at hand, anything else hardly matters.
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