Google Cloud Compute Engine goes live
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Google Cloud Compute Engine goes live
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#2> GCE "is a long-term strategic bet for the company," said Brian Goldfarb, Google's head of cloud platform marketing, adding that "we have an incredibly high bar for what general availability means."
and
> The company has established a service level agreement (SLA) where it guarantees GCE to be available 99.95% of the time
Doesn't seem to match. (99.95% is a really high bar? 20 minutes per month? from Google?! )
[EDIT] Misunderstanding of the vocabulary on my part, read further down.
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#3> GCE "is a long-term strategic bet for the company," said Brian Goldfarb, Google's head of cloud platform marketing, adding that "we have an incredibly high bar for what general availability means." and > The company has established a service level agreement (SLA) where it guarantees GCE to be available 99.95% of the time Doesn't seem to match. (99.95% is a really high bar? 20 minutes per month? from Google?! ) [EDI…
Seems they are just trying to match EC2 here, not beat them.
http://aws.amazon.com/ec2-sla/ says 99.95% as well.
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#4> GCE "is a long-term strategic bet for the company," said Brian Goldfarb, Google's head of cloud platform marketing, adding that "we have an incredibly high bar for what general availability means." and > The company has established a service level agreement (SLA) where it guarantees GCE to be available 99.95% of the time Doesn't seem to match. (99.95% is a really high bar? 20 minutes per month? from Google?! ) [EDI…
Seems they are just trying to match EC2 here, not beat them. http://aws.amazon.com/ec2-sla/ says 99.95% as well.
Breaking news, Google admits Amazon has set an "Incredibly high bar" with regards to High Availability :p
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#5> GCE "is a long-term strategic bet for the company," said Brian Goldfarb, Google's head of cloud platform marketing, adding that "we have an incredibly high bar for what general availability means." and > The company has established a service level agreement (SLA) where it guarantees GCE to be available 99.95% of the time Doesn't seem to match. (99.95% is a really high bar? 20 minutes per month? from Google?! ) [EDI…
Rackspace will only give 3 9s.
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#6Same %, still amazon might beat GCE when it comes to features.
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/120313-google-compute-...
Re: Google Cloud Compute Engine goes live
#7> GCE "is a long-term strategic bet for the company," said Brian Goldfarb, Google's head of cloud platform marketing, adding that "we have an incredibly high bar for what general availability means." and > The company has established a service level agreement (SLA) where it guarantees GCE to be available 99.95% of the time Doesn't seem to match. (99.95% is a really high bar? 20 minutes per month? from Google?! ) [EDI…
Yes it's a high bar. This isn't electricity or a phone line. There are complex layers on top of complex layers. And they are going to come crashing down at some point. The cost of ensuring otherwise scales non-linearly. I don't want my VM to cost a substantial fraction of a Space Shuttle, thank you.
Re: Google Cloud Compute Engine goes live
#8> GCE "is a long-term strategic bet for the company," said Brian Goldfarb, Google's head of cloud platform marketing, adding that "we have an incredibly high bar for what general availability means." and > The company has established a service level agreement (SLA) where it guarantees GCE to be available 99.95% of the time Doesn't seem to match. (99.95% is a really high bar? 20 minutes per month? from Google?! ) [EDI…
Yes it's a high bar. This isn't electricity or a phone line. There are complex layers on top of complex layers. And they are going to come crashing down at some point. The cost of ensuring otherwise scales non-linearly. I don't want my VM to cost a substantial fraction of a Space Shuttle, thank you.
Condescending tone aside: They have matched Amazon - As far as I am concerned "meeting the standard set by a competitor" is not something worth gushing about for someone like Google.
Maybe I still have the veneer of "Google have the best in the world" in my thinking, but Google "setting a high bar" is beating the competition, not matching it.
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#9So now might be as good a time as any to ask: any happy GCE-using EC2 refugees that have tools/tips to share after making the jump?
I saw someone tried to add GCE support to boto a while back [1], but after some discussion it seems there was a decision not to support it [2]. (I don't know enough about the platform differences to say whether it make sense..)
[1] https://github.com/boto/boto/pull/1159
[2] https://groups.google.com/d/msg/boto-dev/fNM7AFM1Ors/x-nf_MS...
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes it's a high bar. This isn't electricity or a phone line. There are complex layers on top of complex layers. And they are going to come crashing down at some point. The cost of ensuring otherwise scales non-linearly. I don't want my VM to cost a substantial fraction of a Space Shuttle, thank you.
Condescending tone aside: They have matched Amazon - As far as I am concerned "meeting the standard set by a competitor" is not something worth gushing about for someone like Google. Maybe I still have the veneer of "Google have the best in the world" in my thinking, but Google "setting a high bar" is beating the competition, not matching it.
> Google "setting a high bar" is beating the competition, not matching it
Good thing nobody said "setting a high bar", then. You're choosing to read the statement in strained manner that doesn't match my reading of its intended meaning at all.