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Re: Google Cloud products in 4 words or less

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If you need to publish this you have a product management problem. Arguably, some of these things are features not products, and should not be branded. The level of complexity is overwhelming, especially for the decreasing marginal returns to effort for most companies for most of these services, I suggest that G and AWS need to take a new approach here.

This. It reminded me of the Periodic Table of Perl 6 Operators, another "advert" that really isn't: https://www.ozonehouse.com/mark/periodic/

Re: Google Cloud products in 4 words or less

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Google Cloud really needs better marketing. I didn't have the most basic awareness of most of these services.

What kind of marketing? Google cloud is a highly complex B2B product. Do you know what salesforce or oracle sells? As both a developer and consumer, I have no idea.

Salesforce sells a CRM. Oracle sells lawsuits.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

To be perfectly honest I also don't know 90% of AWS's services either.

On the other hand AWS and GCP services almost have a 1-to-1 mapping; so one only need to know one platform to be able to start working with the other.

This isn't exactly true. I have worked extensively with Azure, Google Cloud and AWS. While many of their basic services do seem to map 1 to 1 there are enough differences in the details that it's almost like learning a completely new system. At a very high level the basics are relevant, but the differences are much greater than you might expect.

Re: Google Cloud products in 4 words or less

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Mobile got left off the PDF but it's also a part of cloud: Mobile (Firebase) * Cloud Firestore: Document store and sync * Cloud Functions for Firebase: Event-driven serverless applications * Cloud Storage for Firebase: Object storage and serving Crashlytics: Crash reporting and analytics * Firebase A/B Testing: Create A/B test experiments * Firebase App Distribution: Trusted tester early access * Firebase Authenticat…

I've always liked Firebase. I'm glad it's still around.

Re: Google Cloud products in 4 words or less

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I need this but from AWS

Here you go https://adayinthelifeof.nl/2020/05/20/aws.html

>File / object storage. Not primarily used for mounting as filesystem, but you can directly download files through HTTP.

Woah, what is this, a novel?

Re: Google Cloud products in 4 words or less

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

To be perfectly honest I also don't know 90% of AWS's services either.

On the other hand AWS and GCP services almost have a 1-to-1 mapping; so one only need to know one platform to be able to start working with the other.

GCP has a few products that AWS doesn't. BigQuery ML and Cloud Spanner are a few that I can think of. These might have approximations on AWS, but not 1-to-1 feature competitors. Plus GCP has one-click integrations with pretty much every Google API out there (analytics, ads, drive, etc).

It's been a minute since I worked with AWS, but they have tons and tons of products. On the order of two, maybe three times as many.

The basic stuff like VMs, storage, networking, and managed postgres/mysql SQL databases are close, but the specialized services can be very different when you look at them closely.

Re: Google Cloud products in 4 words or less

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Google Cloud really needs better marketing. I didn't have the most basic awareness of most of these services.

They need to throw shade at AWS. "Google cancels everything" is a meme, but AWS releasing broken pre-alpha products, letting old ones rot on the vine, and having crazy monetization schemes that are utterly inconsistent with marketing is not a meme, even though they do these things all the time. If GCP wants to win, they need to fix that, because "will I be blamed for the next shitshow" is the key question on every ar…

Do a Project Zero not for security but for usability, capability, and pricing against AWS?
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