Azure or GCP after AWS

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Sep 8, 2021 7 Comments

Has anyone worked in Azure or GCP after working in AWS? How is the experience with tech stack? I know AWS is mainly Java, Python and Azure is C#, .net and GCP is lot of internal languages and frameworks. is there a significant learning curve?
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  • Google
    reallynice

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    reallynice
    The language/framework is just a tool. Understanding architecture and product matters more
    Sep 8, 2021 2
    • Amazon
      aqSF65

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      OP
      True and I agree. But there is still a learning curve required to learn new tools and frameworks. So I was wondering about it.
      Sep 8, 2021
    • Google
      reallynice

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      reallynice
      Coming from amazon, you may feel that it slows you down a lot at first and you may be frustrated with the ramp up time in comparison. It's partially the tech stack and partially the culture
      Sep 8, 2021
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    iensndj

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    iensndj
    Related question: people always say gcp is way behind AWS/azure. Does anyone have examples of what services and features they are lacking?

    I know they are behind in market share, but it seems they have all of the important features.
    Sep 8, 2021 3
    • Google
      BtzR01

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      BtzR01
      ...and an entire sales army like Azure
      Sep 12, 2021
    • New / IT
      new2Google

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      ~20 YOE (networking, security, collaboration, application optimization, etc), and now on the cloud side. been mostly in design/architect/presales
      new2Google
      here are some comparisons having worked with AWS and will be working solely with GCP (still onboarding):

      - AWS has a Desktop as a Service offering (GCP just announced a partnership with Citrix to deliver this so this might be moot).
      - Storage: AWS has better cost effective storage tiering & more migration options
      - AWS' monitoring/logging/alarm support for their services thru CloudWatch is great - the big exception here is with EKS where the picture is currently muddy
      - AWS' Route 53 is miles ahead of everyone else. GCP is just starting, but limited routing customization support when compared to R53
      - AWS' ElasticBeanstalk is good... just simple to use
      - AWS has more partners in Marketplace than GCP - for now - that can provide integrated 3rd party solutions for customers
      - AWS has a bigger partner ecosystem - for now
      - the area that I don't know yet, but I know for a fact that AWS kicks ass in, is the number of tech resources they can throw into helping customers solve problems, and the related speed. I haven't been at Google long enough to know how Google compares yet.
      - GCP has better firewall capabilities, and I love their networking setup (ex. subnet spans across Zones within a region)
      - GCP has waaaaay better k8s capabilities. I worked on this and GCP's Anthos & GKE tech is well ahead of AWS / EKS
      - GCP has better AI/ML services, and are integrating them into GC services
      - GCP has a better contact center solution (CCAI) than AWS - for now.
      - GCP can fully leverage Google Maps for a lot of their automation.
      - GCP's Bigquery is just better than Redshift for Big Data workloads, and can leverage Bigquery Omni
      - lastly, and this is a personal option even before I joined Google: The GCP UI is better than both Azure and AWS. I personally HATE the Azure UI...
      Oct 20, 2021