Agreed - it was senseless. SNS/SQS aren't particularly complex and they scale like crazy. Kinesis is something else entirely (N-hour record retention w/arbitrary consumers and offsets) and doesn't even belong in the comparison.
> ugh. Perfectly fine article now just reeks of google "fanboy-ism".
Do Google's core products actually run on GCP these days? I was under the impression they do not.
Not really. They are influenced by, but the same, code as runs Google. (for instance, Kubernetes is based on Borg)
> Google lets you set up simple Firewall rules. Amazon gives you VPC, security groups, network access control lists and a big, fat headache.
AWS also gives you firewall rules, in addition to the other options. If you don't get why you would need them, you don't really have to use them.
This point is oddly weak in comparison to the others.
> Amazon has one of the most confusing IAM. While it is nice to set up a role to only allows usage for a particular resource from a specific device and times of day, you end up spending most of your time debugging policies.
Haven't used GCP, but I didn't mind IAM. Missed it when I waas trying to figure out Azure stuff.
> We moved because we wanted to work on infrastructure that runs YouTube, Gmail and Google Analytics. We moved because Google is fair, much more tech-savvy and launch products that just works.
ugh. Perfectly fine article now just reeks of google "fanboy-ism".