Re:Amazon has long ruled the cloud – now it must fend off ri...
by jedberg on Sunday January 05, 2020 @06:47PM
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Chasing AWS's APIs probably isn't a good use of their time, and wouldn't encourage a lot of people to move.
API compatibility is not the biggest blocker to changing clouds -- moving one's data is.
The could work out a deal where outbound data from Google to AWS is free, but that probably wouldn't be in their best interests either.
I think their strategy of being the best place to run K8s is a good one. If you standardize on K8s you can run on any cloud, and they want to be the best place to do that.
API compatibility is not the biggest blocker to changing clouds -- moving one's data is.
The could work out a deal where outbound data from Google to AWS is free, but that probably wouldn't be in their best interests either.
I think their strategy of being the best place to run K8s is a good one. If you standardize on K8s you can run on any cloud, and they want to be the best place to do that.
Still have the data problem though.