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Re: Google Announces Massive Price Drops for Cloud Computing Services, Storage

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Post by brownbat » Wed, Mar 26, 2014, 10:30 PM UTC

brownbat wrote: post #170

bcantrill wrote: post #50

Full disclosure: I work for a competitor to both GCE and AWS. tl;dr: Until the fundamental issue of trust is addressed, customers will applaud the price drops only because they look forward to AWS responding in kind, not because they plan to actually deploy on GCE. In my experience, GCE has not been a factor in the public cloud market to date. They seem to have a fundamental misunderstanding in that they (apparently)…

> AWS services do not have a trust issue Somewhat mysteriously, perhaps, given a history that has included a series of fairly high profile outages.

I'm not just making this up or trying to be funny:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Web_Services#History

When AWS made the news in late 2012, it wasn't good news, it was breaking the internet.

Re: Google Announces Massive Price Drops for Cloud Computing Services, Storage

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Post by stephenhuey » Thu, Mar 27, 2014, 1:32 AM UTC

tomnewton wrote: post #213

stephenhuey wrote: post #105

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was such a big early fan of GAE, but I do remember so many people feeling burned by the pricing change and the terrible customer service. SSL was for me an important missing feature and I got a friend to walk up to one of the GAE guys at SXSW to ask him directly about SSL or SNI, but according to him it wasn't even on their public roadmap in March 2010. I see that Google product guy has long since moved on to Dropb…

So were we, but we stuck with it, and I'm glad. App Engine is absolutely second to none as a PaaS. Fact is I sleep better at night on App Engine that I ever could on AWS.

Glad to hear it! So for my next brilliant idea, should I run it on GAE or Heroku?

Re: Google Announces Massive Price Drops for Cloud Computing Services, Storage

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Post by niketdesai » Fri, Mar 28, 2014, 8:26 AM UTC

toomuchtodo wrote: post #218

niketdesai wrote: post #198

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's not an individual that is making these decisions, it's a complicated set of groups, technologies, and directions. Does that mean having bad user experiences is justified? No. But it's incredibly complicated to tie together such large projects (at a complexity most people won't fathom) and do it well. I would look at it the other way and be amazed how good some of the things work.

Okay, so turn into an incubator. Divest all of your groups except Adwords, and create a holding company for your cash for investing in startups. The only way for Google to innovate now is through acquisitions and acquihires.

I think that's a viable option.

Also, it's perfectly acceptable to enter new markets through acquisitions and apply Google's innovations there. That is a form of innovation in my opinion.