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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).
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.
It seems that if Google believes in GCP being almost as big as AdWords, the likelihood of GCP Compute being shut down is as likely as GMail for Business being shut down. Not saying that it couldn't happen, but with Spotify and Quizlet using GCP instances, I find it highly unlikely the compute platform would go away, especially with paying users. A free product on the other hand could die on a whim.
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.
Even if not, they are such a large well known name that they probably got special treatment. The real proof in the pudding is the support that the 99% get, not the special case 1%.
The Best Cloud is probably a combination of all. Since that would give you the highest Availability.
There are companies that help you run "seamlessly" on any cloud provider you want so in theory you can use them to balance your services between cloud provider for cost or performance.
Also, why dismiss DigitalOcean as a niche provider for hobbyists? The simple pricing, with lots of data transfer included, should appeal to a lot of businesses too.
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.
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"Azure was eliminated since its a Linux-second cloud" I have a feeling this person never really dove into Azure, and just wrote it off because it had Microsoft services built in; and of course various sysadmins still have a strong bias against Microsoft, especially if they are Open Source advocates. Seems like the entire article is mostly just comparing AWS to GCP instead of giving an actual overview of the cloud lan…
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.