Is it because it is not developer friendly or doesn't have good devops support or they are just not aggresive in marketing?
Ask HN: Why is GCP not as used as AWS/Azure?
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Re: Ask HN: Why is GCP not as used as AWS/Azure?
#2Because Google has a bad track record of supporting its ventures and a worse one in supporting developers.
Re: Ask HN: Why is GCP not as used as AWS/Azure?
#3Because Google has a bad track record of supporting its ventures and a worse one in supporting developers.
I think also: AWS started the industry so first mover advantage and a hell of a lot of products in the space and experience. Azure (MS) has every corporate in the world (nearly) using is on prem AD so they would have picked up tons of easy Azure clients just extending their corporate networks to Azure AD.
Re: Ask HN: Why is GCP not as used as AWS/Azure?
#4Because Google has a bad track record of supporting its ventures and a worse one in supporting developers.
I agree with the first point but can you cite some examples for the second. I personally feel they are/should be most developer friendly company considering they are purely engineering driven.
Re: Ask HN: Why is GCP not as used as AWS/Azure?
#5Because Google has a bad track record of supporting its ventures and a worse one in supporting developers.
I think also: AWS started the industry so first mover advantage and a hell of a lot of products in the space and experience. Azure (MS) has every corporate in the world (nearly) using is on prem AD so they would have picked up tons of easy Azure clients just extending their corporate networks to Azure AD.
This is much bigger than any "google killing products" issue. Azure got a lot of ways to push itself in, and reaps a lot of possible clients by being first party windows solution for companies that have a lot of windows stack.
AWS has the first mover advantage and enormous brand penetration - it's literally the "you can't get fired for choosing AWS" (instead your company might fold due to AWS bills, but you'll be clean).
Meanwhile Google seems to be much less known in cloud infrastructure space - people think of Google Apps/Workspaces, not GCP, and they seemed to have serious problem getting to clients. I know I was quite surprised by the available stuff and low prices when I did my first project on GCP back in 2016, and generally I've been pleasantly surprised except by their horrible billing support (Google can't into actually getting paid?)
They are in this funny situation where they constantly seem to be lacking fully blown virtuous cycle of adopters and supporting companies, despite having some of the best options on the market - but I think the real issue is that they are neither the first mover (AWS) nor "canonical windows source" as with Azure.
Re: Ask HN: Why is GCP not as used as AWS/Azure?
#6Because Google has a bad track record of supporting its ventures and a worse one in supporting developers.
I agree with the first point but can you cite some examples for the second. I personally feel they are/should be most developer friendly company considering they are purely engineering driven.
Maybe OP is referring to the several reports similar to this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30174848
Re: Ask HN: Why is GCP not as used as AWS/Azure?
#7Probably because it was third to market?
Re: Ask HN: Why is GCP not as used as AWS/Azure?
#8Because Google has a bad track record of supporting its ventures and a worse one in supporting developers.
I agree with the first point but can you cite some examples for the second. I personally feel they are/should be most developer friendly company considering they are purely engineering driven.
Perhaps things have changed but the old Steve Yegge post speaks directly to developer friendliness: https://steve-yegge.medium.com/dear-google-cloud-your-deprec...
Re: Ask HN: Why is GCP not as used as AWS/Azure?
#9Because Google has a bad track record of supporting its ventures and a worse one in supporting developers.
I agree with the first point but can you cite some examples for the second. I personally feel they are/should be most developer friendly company considering they are purely engineering driven.
Why would the one imply the other? The Spartans were the most military driven nation in history (possibly excepting the Mongols, who are another fine example) but they weren't exactly open-arms to foreign soldiers..
Re: Ask HN: Why is GCP not as used as AWS/Azure?
#10I can’t think of any good reason to use GCP. They were a bit late to the party and people don’t switch clouds for no reason.