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What's the Best Cloud? Probably GCP

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My main concern with picking GCP would be that Google has a history of shutting down projects. I feel like they are more likely to shutter GCP than Amazon is with AWS.

I think if they demonstrate that they dogfood it the way Amazon does it will go a long way. Based on talks I've seen I know some internal teams use it (or at least did when it was free for them).

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This should really be titled "A comparison of AWS and GCP."

It totally wrote off Azure (2nd in market size) because its a "Linux second" cloud (what does that even mean in a virtualized world).

Also, you forgot to analyze support and SLAs around functionality. Good luck with GCP when something goes wrong or they decide to sunset a feature.

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Re: What's the Best Cloud? Probably GCP

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This should really be titled "A comparison of AWS and GCP." It totally wrote off Azure (2nd in market size) because its a "Linux second" cloud (what does that even mean in a virtualized world). Also, you forgot to analyze support and SLAs around functionality. Good luck with GCP when something goes wrong or they decide to sunset a feature.

Support is much better on GCP than AWS. Reference: https://news.spotify.com/us/2016/02/23/announcing-spotify-in...

One of the reasons why Spotify went with Google Cloud is because of their superior support.

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Interesting read. Can someone explain this point to me? "Software-defined networking means that google.com appears to be one hop away" One hop from...? Everywhere? Each server? How does that help? I understand 'traceroute' but not where that single hop to Google comes in and why that's great.

Re: What's the Best Cloud? Probably GCP

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Interesting read. Can someone explain this point to me? "Software-defined networking means that google.com appears to be one hop away" One hop from...? Everywhere? Each server? How does that help? I understand 'traceroute' but not where that single hop to Google comes in and why that's great.

Yep. That's right.Google has built their custom networking. It's like when a machine A sends packet to machine B, the packet is handed over to Google SDN (Software-defined Network), which carries to over their private network and then injects the packet into machine B. Googles network is an order of magnitude faster compared to AWS.
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