Watched reinvent video, AWS seems to be miles ahead of Google. What do you think ?
Of course, in cloud business AWS > Azure >> Google Cloud
Very true. AWS is the market leader and innovator. It doesn't even slow down at this pace which is really weird to me. However, as Google generally has an advantage over everyone on cutting edge technology, once they pass the initial bootstrapping process and find its ground to funnel their internal magic as public offering, they will be a pretty formidable competitor to us.
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Aws n azure are the only companies worth talking about in this space. Google is not good at enterprise software
Google is verticalizing its cloud offering, which is a really smart strategy considering how far behind they are. Google will be successful but it's hard to see them dominating the market any time soon. The consequence is that if you're in certain vertical, Google is the smart choice. Otherwise, it's probably not.
That doesn't work well for cloud.
Why not? Why does every cloud need to sell generic compute resources?
AWS willingly disrupts itself because as a part of Amazon, its leaders will always do what’s best for customers. Most of the revenue presently comes from EC2, and a typical company would work to preserve that. Yet AWS launches and pushes serverless (Lambda) with gusto, and that’s a direct “threat” to the virtual machines cash-cow. Among other things, of course.
Google is in it for the long haul so I'm not too worried about any perceived gaps. Partners and analysts like Accenture and Gartner are also helping us be more enterprise friendly. Most businesses will use multiple cloud providers anyway,, so it's inevitable that they'll consider Google's cloud. AFAIK, I haven't seen anyone's network compete with Google, as it took a lot of resources to build Google's fiber network. Imagine being a network engineer (Urs) and you had the whole ads revenue behind you. You would build some truly amazing data centers, fully under your control and secure. Other strengths are AI and Kubernetes, of course. My only concern is if Googlers have forgotten how to hustle, as they've been relying on ads for so long. That's not necessarily a bad thing either, since we can use what we learned about YouTube, Ads, Search, and Gmail to improve the experience for customers, and our new hires are compensated pretty well to help us grow the business. I'm a bit surprised that not many Googlers wrote into this blind post, but this is my opinion, anyway. P.s. We also have Google Cloud Functions, so Lambda is not really as shiny to me anymore, though I do really like serverless and the whole industry benefits by using it more.
No enterprise buys for network...it’s table stacks..Unless google pushes full blown into applications like databases..it’s hard to sell. Some customers are thinking about Multi cloud approach...in that case winner would be the one who offers more PAAS offerings. Regarding Kubernets...that’s also table stacks now. AWS announced Kubernetes as a managed service. BTW aws runs some of the largest deployments of kubernetes already..for quite a while
True, so, even if all technology ends up the same and open source platforms allow customers flexibility to switch, then the best customer service should win. This seems like the best outcome imo.
AWS is many years (~5) ahead of both GCP and Azure in terms of customer facing features, back-end maturity, and internal processes. I led my prior firm's Azure presence and it is like night and day working for AWS now and seeing what our processes are like compared to the near constant issues I faced with Microsoft and their lack of ownership, misdirection. MS even hires marketing firms to put out "poll data" where Azure is now the top cloud, but no methods or data is present, and respondents are <300 unstratified data points. GCP on the other hand has a good working relationship with lots of startups, but they just can't scale yet.
Not sure if you tried gcloud or az cli.
Number of aws services offerings are way ahead. Also Amazon has it's own businesses to try, test, understand usage and suggest features, products so it is easy for them to build right products. MS will always play catchup game but knows how to deal with enterprises. Google has tech resources but they are not good at following up and iterating over products well..
Pretty much, but AWS has had a lot more time and has somewhat cornered a big segment of the market.