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Yeah. AWS is probably "losing" tens of dollars per month hosting my personal account. They've made a few million dollars in sales as a result. I've personally s
by wegs 6y ago
Yeah. AWS is probably "losing" tens of dollars per month hosting my personal account. They've made a few million dollars in sales as a result. I've personally started several projects on top of AWS which spend that much now. That started with the free tier back when AWS was young.
Google has treated me so badly so many times now on my personal account (as well as on business accounts, for that matter) in so many different ways that they've, conversely, lost MANY million dollars in business sales. It's hard to even count; a lot of people ask me for advise on decisions, and whenever someone even thinks about using Google Cloud in a business setting....
This is not a hole I see Google getting out of, except by eventually shutting down the Google cloud. Too many people have had too many bad experiences, and reputations take a long time to recover.
And the failures just keep on piling up.
Google is great for personal use, but I think they're diversifying in all the wrong directions. They're not structured for success there.
- porker 6y agoAnd yet Google Cloud has some great features that AFAIK AWS still hasn't, presumably due to different priorities. Like regional disks [1] or live migration of compute between hosts if problems are detected with the host. 1. https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/disks#repds https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/disks#repds
- Aeolun 6y ago> live migration of compute between hosts When would you ever want to rely on this? Seems to me like you should have two hosts in the first place.
- porker 6y agoWhen you don't want to lose the requests already in progress, and to avoid the failover window
- manigandham 6y agoGoogle has been relying on it for years. It's completely seamless and means you get even better reliability by insulating from the underlying hardware issues.