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Re:Introducing Cloud Spanner, a Global Database Service by scarmig on Tuesday February 14, 2017 @01:38PM (#13645919)
Curious: is there any company in the world that could replicate its breadth, performance, and reliability in the next decade?

Could any government? Has any government?

My impression is that, infrastructure wise, Google is genuinely in a class of size one.

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Re:Introducing Cloud Spanner, a Global Database Service by 010a on Tuesday February 14, 2017 @03:05PM (#13646640)
Its probably a class size of 2, with Amazon. Beyond those two though, no one else is close.
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Re:Introducing Cloud Spanner, a Global Database Service by tazjin on Tuesday February 14, 2017 @04:34PM (#13647425)
I honestly don't think Amazon is even close to Google.

How much more infrastructure do they have besides AWS? How much does Google have besides GCP?

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Re:Introducing Cloud Spanner, a Global Database Service by tybit on Wednesday February 15, 2017 @12:05AM (#13649844)
That's ignoring just how much larger AWS is than GCP.
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Re:Introducing Cloud Spanner, a Global Database Service by tazjin on Wednesday February 15, 2017 @02:42AM (#13650407)
Sure, but those are the public offerings - the largest part of Google's infrastructure is not public.
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Re:Introducing Cloud Spanner, a Global Database Service by _bpo on Tuesday February 14, 2017 @05:57PM (#13648092)
Capital expenditures might shed some light on this. I don't think there's enough public data to be clear but in 2015 Amazon (4.8B), Google (9.9B) and Microsoft (5.9B) were at least on the same order of magnitude in terms of CapEx, whereas other major "datacenter" companies like Rackspace (475M) are much smaller.

I don't think you can draw any definitive conclusions from this, but calling it a class of size 1 or 2 is probably an overstatement of Google (+/- Amazon)'s advantage over Microsoft at least.

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Re:Introducing Cloud Spanner, a Global Database Service by manigandham on Wednesday February 15, 2017 @12:05PM (#13653449)
What? Close to what? There are many many companies with lots of network infrastructure. Google and Amazon are not by themselves.
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Re:Introducing Cloud Spanner, a Global Database Service by renaudg on Tuesday February 14, 2017 @11:17PM (#13649647)
Ever heard of Facebook ? :)
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Re:Introducing Cloud Spanner, a Global Database Service by acchow on Wednesday February 15, 2017 @03:30AM (#13650560)
> Could any government?

NSA's annual budget is $50bn. U.S. military budget is about $600bn.

Google's revenue is $90bn and they don't spend all of it.

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Re:Introducing Cloud Spanner, a Global Database Service by discodave on Tuesday February 14, 2017 @04:22PM (#13647321)
AWS, they just don't talk publicly about it so much.
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