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Re:Google Cloud Worth $225B, Deutsche Bank Says by q3k on Friday October 04, 2019 @02:54PM (#21160750)
I'm really glad they took the opportunity to change the APIs and abstractions around. Some of the ones exposed by AWS are absolutely insane.

Not to mention some of the paradigms: regionalized dashboards/endpoints, the mess that is EC2Classic/VPC, lack of projects for compartmentalization/namespacing ... a lot of those APIs also leak internal implementation details of their products, and trying to match them would be silly.

And they did follow one API that everybody else has: S3. And that one is decent only because it's basically HTTP with some auth headers sprinkled in.

My overall experience with GCloud is much better thanks to these redesigns. AWS just seems like an underdesigned mess of loosely coupled components implemented by siloed teams.

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Re:Google Cloud Worth $225B, Deutsche Bank Says by my_usernam3 on Friday October 04, 2019 @04:26PM (#21161594)
> AWS just seems like an underdesigned mess of loosely coupled components implemented by siloed teams

That was my experience as well. It felt like they never included any UX person throughout any of the decisions. Their naming convention alone always seemed confusing to me, although it does seem to be improving.

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Re:Google Cloud Worth $225B, Deutsche Bank Says by erichurkman on Friday October 04, 2019 @10:36PM (#21163501)
Applies: https://twitter.com/QuinnyPig/status/1173389969454288896
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