GCE - the underrated underdog of the market
March 24, 2017
GCE - the underrated underdog of the market
Score 8 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Google Compute Engine
It is being used across the whole organization. It addresses the problem of providing solutions to customers who need an all-inclusive infrastructure solution for web services and apps. It has a lot of systems that are managed by Google which people commonly build themselves without knowing that they are reinventing the wheel.
- Clean and well-designed API
- Simple, yet transparent reporting of usage
- Generous and straightforward pricing
- Missing GPUs for cloud instances
- Excessively lean customer service department
- Confusion as to how the container environment works in relation to GCE
- Avoid hiring DevOps Engineer (Huge positive - $200k/yr)
- Avoid building redundant infrastructure / systems - Huge positive
- Time to learn Kubernetes and the Google way - small negative
AWS has a ton of options in terms of tools that you can use. It's pricing model is hit or miss (some offerings are simply unaffordable). Some of the API design is questionable at best and frustrating at worst.
Microsoft Azure is a newcomer in the market with focus on enterprise customers. The prior focus on the Microsoft stack (which they've moved away from) has been a huge negative, and something they've had to overcome by layering other tools on top of their system and offering cut rate pricing.
Microsoft Azure is a newcomer in the market with focus on enterprise customers. The prior focus on the Microsoft stack (which they've moved away from) has been a huge negative, and something they've had to overcome by layering other tools on top of their system and offering cut rate pricing.