Ask HN: Alternatives to AWS?

Re:Ask HN: Alternatives to AWS? by tshtf on Sunday October 02, 2016 @08:14AM (#12622016)

Google has far more than App Engine today; they basically compete with AWS directly service by service.

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Re:Ask HN: Alternatives to AWS? by mrep on Sunday October 02, 2016 @09:10PM (#12625082)

I would love a direct service to service comparison between the major cloud providers.

Anyone know of a guide like that?

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Re:Ask HN: Alternatives to AWS? by tafda on Sunday October 02, 2016 @11:00PM (#12625337)

Available service, SLA, and region comparison for AWS, Google, Azure and Softlayer at a fairly high level:

http://cloudcomparison.rightscale.com

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Re:Ask HN: Alternatives to AWS? by jasode on Monday October 03, 2016 @05:29AM (#12626182)

I looked at that Rightscale link and I think it shows that comparing a very fast moving area like cloud services is very difficult and results in incomplete features matrix. For the unsophisticated buyer, this can lead to misleading comparisons.

For example, Rightscale has "Event-Driven Compute" (sometimes aka as "serverless computation") in the AWS column (AWS Lambda) but that entry is blank in Google Cloud column. However in February 2016, Google announced Google Cloud Functions which is the equivalent to AWS Lambda.

I'd expect a cloud comparison website to update the features matrix within 1 week of the AWS re:invent conferences, the Google I/O conferences, and any press releases.

As for the other comparison Cloudorado mentioned by another poster, that comparison matrix is missing database services like mapreduce, business intelligence analytics, etc.

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Re:Ask HN: Alternatives to AWS? by kweins on Monday October 03, 2016 @01:44PM (#12629605)

Thanks for the feedback. We haven't included Google Cloud Functions yet in the Cloud Comparison tool because it's still in Alpha. We update the information in the Cloud Comparison site quarterly and allow each cloud provider the opportunity to review the material and send us any corrections.

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Re:Ask HN: Alternatives to AWS? by mrep on Monday October 03, 2016 @12:39AM (#12625537)

That's is very helpful, although a little outdated (bookmarked nonetheless). AWS now has x1 instances with 128 vCPU's and 1952 GB of ram: https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/x1/

On a totally different note, Softlayer has a 100% uptime guarantee! That is surreal if it's actually true.

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Re:Ask HN: Alternatives to AWS? by iamtew on Monday October 03, 2016 @04:13AM (#12625991)

There's also https://www.cloudorado.com/

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Re:Ask HN: Alternatives to AWS? by vgt on Sunday October 02, 2016 @09:15PM (#12625096)

Aw well here ya go then!

https://cloud.google.com/docs/compare/aws/

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Re:Ask HN: Alternatives to AWS? by mrep on Sunday October 02, 2016 @09:34PM (#12625149)

Wow, thank you. Albeit, that only shows google's matchings to AWS, but AWS has like 60 services.

I would also like to be able to breakdown the services to see comparisons in things like SLA's and pricing but this is a good start.

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Re:Ask HN: Alternatives to AWS? by vgt on Sunday October 02, 2016 @09:50PM (#12625189)

Ah this old thing? :)

https://cloud.google.com/products/calculator/

Yes, tough to cover it all. I believe Azure has a similar "Azure to AWS" comparison. The GCP one is built by folks expertly familiar with AWS and tried to be as factual as possible.

I've previously collected a bunch of Google Cloud customer stories here (not Google PR - customers):

https://www.medium.com/google-cloud/i-think-google-cloud-is-...

Happy to answer any questions!

(obv. biased and work on Google Cloud)

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Re:Ask HN: Alternatives to AWS? by gbrayut on Sunday October 02, 2016 @09:28PM (#12625131)

You can run benchmarks using https://cloudharmony.com but it looks like there site is having issues right now.

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