Re:Moving The New York Times Games Platform to Google App En...
by manigandham on Thursday August 24, 2017 @02:45AM
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GCP support can sometimes be bad but these other claims don't add up. What isn't working as promised? BigQuery can do a lot more than Athena and it's storage pricing is the same or cheaper than S3.
We've used 5 different providers for a global system and GCP has won by both performance and price. We still use Azure and AWS for some missing functionality but the core services are much more solid and easy to deal with on GCP, which is also far more than just app engine.
Additionally, Big Query is far more expensive than Athena, where you have to pay a huge premium on storage.
The biggest difference is that what amazon provides you in infrastructure, where as google provides you a platform. While app engine is certainly easier to use than elastic bean stalk, you have very little control over what is done in the background once you let google do its thing.