Re:Discussion: GCP, AWS and Azure
by dinkleberg on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @04:12PM
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I would disagree with the IaaS and PaaS distinction with AWS and GCP. Both have many many different services. They both provide an IaaS (compute instance) service and they both have a PaaS offering, among many others. Azure is in the same boat as well.
Re:Discussion: GCP, AWS and Azure
by dragonwriter on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @04:14PM
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> I believe AWS is considered IAAS while GCP is more PAAS
There was a time when AWS had an IaaS and no PaaS and Google has a PaaS but no IaaS, but that's long (in public cloud offerings time) past.
If you're looking for a job, AWS has the largest market share (33%), followed by Azure (19%), and GCP (9%).
If you're looking for a place to host your product, you probably can't go wrong with either of the three, but there are some minor considerations...
Personally, I would consider GCP a little more risky long term. There was a report last year about Google considering existing the cloud business and setting a goal to be a top two player by 2023. Since this seems unlikely, what then? Google has some anti-trust concerns, but the bigger anti-trust concern is probably Amazon. There is a non-zero chance that AWS gets split out from Amazon at some point.
Finally, I don't really know GCP that well, but it's my understanding it's a little easier to manage for smaller teams. I believe AWS is considered IAAS while GCP is more PAAS (although the lines get blurred depending on product). In my experience, for companies using AWS... having a DevOps team that smooths over the rough edges of AWS and provides tooling on top of AWS warts has been a requirement.
I have no experience with Azure, but I can't see Google out performing Microsoft in any world as long as MSFT has .NET stack.