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Yet I have the feeling GCP is the one which has been improving the most the quality of its offering. It's interesting to monitor what's happening with data-war

by simo7 7y ago

Yet I have the feeling GCP is the one which has been improving the most the quality of its offering. It's interesting to monitor what's happening with data-warehouses for instance. It almost feels AWS is having its "Kodak moment" with Redshift: a very remunerative but old technology in which they are deeply invested in. It prevents them to put more effort behind solutions that decouple compute from storage (see Athena) and as a result they are offering a subpar competitor to BigQuery.

PasserBy2025 7y ago
Committing to long-term support is part of quality. And this is simply not there with Google products.
- v7p1Qbt1im 7y ago
  Not there with free consumer Google products. Their enterprise level GCP support is pretty much the same as the other providers.
- simo7 7y ago
  As in not phasing out products? That's more of a problem with Google than GCP itself. GCP has its problems (heard bad things about CloudSQL support for Postgres), but it does seem to be willing to innovate when it sees an opportunity for it. My point is about AWS being reluctant to embrace new technologies that could damage the ones it's deeply invested in. See Athena vs Redshift or Kubernetes vs ECS (the latter having much better support). That's what I meant by "Kodak moment".
  - sp332 7y ago
    It's more that a conversation among top leadership at Google and Alphabet was leaked, where they put GCP into an artificial do-or-die situation regarding growth and funding. https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/google-reportedly-set-ambitious-goal-and-possible-deadline-for-gcp https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/google-reportedly-set-ambitio...
audleman 7y ago
It's almost a crime that Azure is winning against GCP, like an old jalopy out-selling a Tesla. Yet this article touches upon why, with inferior tech, Microsoft is killing it. Good on them for their business relationship management.

by simo7 7y ago

PasserBy2025 7y ago

Committing to long-term support is part of quality. And this is simply not there with Google products.

v7p1Qbt1im 7y ago
Not there with free consumer Google products. Their enterprise level GCP support is pretty much the same as the other providers.
simo7 7y ago
As in not phasing out products? That's more of a problem with Google than GCP itself. GCP has its problems (heard bad things about CloudSQL support for Postgres), but it does seem to be willing to innovate when it sees an opportunity for it. My point is about AWS being reluctant to embrace new technologies that could damage the ones it's deeply invested in. See Athena vs Redshift or Kubernetes vs ECS (the latter having much better support). That's what I meant by "Kodak moment".
- sp332 7y ago
  It's more that a conversation among top leadership at Google and Alphabet was leaked, where they put GCP into an artificial do-or-die situation regarding growth and funding. https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/google-reportedly-set-ambitious-goal-and-possible-deadline-for-gcp https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/google-reportedly-set-ambitio...

audleman 7y ago

It's almost a crime that Azure is winning against GCP, like an old jalopy out-selling a Tesla. Yet this article touches upon why, with inferior tech, Microsoft is killing it. Good on them for their business relationship management.