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Re: Google Cloud products in 4 words or less

#41

Post by udev » Wed, Mar 03, 2021, 9:25 PM UTC

Conveniently on black background for easy printing!

Re: Google Cloud products in 4 words or less

#42

Post by meddlepal » Wed, Mar 03, 2021, 9:26 PM UTC

What's the use case for something like "VMWare on Google Compute" is it just a API shim to translate VMWare API calls to GCE for companies that are trying to lift and shift to the cloud?

Re: Google Cloud products in 4 words or less

#43

Post by sa46 » Wed, Mar 03, 2021, 9:34 PM UTC

mywittyname wrote: post #32

musicale wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Firebase is kind of weird. It's like a Cloud in a Cloud.

I figured the characterization is Firebase is a PaaS (similar to Heroku) where Google Cloud is IaaS.

Re: Google Cloud products in 4 words or less

#44

Post by jtylr » Wed, Mar 03, 2021, 9:36 PM UTC

udev wrote: post #41

Conveniently on black background for easy printing!

Light version here: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gregsramblings/google-clou...

Re: Google Cloud products in 4 words or less

#45

Post by callesgg » Wed, Mar 03, 2021, 9:40 PM UTC

meddlepal wrote: post #42

What's the use case for something like "VMWare on Google Compute" is it just a API shim to translate VMWare API calls to GCE for companies that are trying to lift and shift to the cloud?

Yeah. Pretty much.

Re: Google Cloud products in 4 words or less

#46

Post by azhenley » Wed, Mar 03, 2021, 9:50 PM UTC

Can I get this for AWS?

Re: Google Cloud products in 4 words or less

#47

Post by jabo » Wed, Mar 03, 2021, 10:04 PM UTC

I see some Google Cloud folks in the comments, so question for you, if you're able to share:

There seems to be a general fear about Google potentially killing off a product, based on recent history [1]. Now I know most of these are on the consumer side of things, but you can imagine people's concerns if the same thing started happening to Google Cloud products. Is the GCP team aware of these concerns, (or is this just a HN crowd concern) and if so, are there steps being taken to address this perception head on?

[1] https://killedbygoogle.com/

Re: Google Cloud products in 4 words or less

#48

Post by [deleted] » Wed, Mar 03, 2021, 10:06 PM UTC

jjoonathan wrote: post #15

jnwatson wrote: post #4

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…

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Re: Google Cloud products in 4 words or less

#49

Post by ssijak » Wed, Mar 03, 2021, 10:12 PM UTC

There are some which are explained in more than 4 words.

Re: Google Cloud products in 4 words or less

#50

Post by mrtrustor » Wed, Mar 03, 2021, 10:17 PM UTC

jabo wrote: post #47

I see some Google Cloud folks in the comments, so question for you, if you're able to share: There seems to be a general fear about Google potentially killing off a product, based on recent history [1]. Now I know most of these are on the consumer side of things, but you can imagine people's concerns if the same thing started happening to Google Cloud products. Is the GCP team aware of these concerns, (or is this jus…

When a company like Deutsche Bank [1] signs a 10-year deal, you can be sure that they have been convinced that the products they rely on will not go anywhere.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-07/google-de...

(Google Cloud employee here)