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Re:Google Cloud vs. AWS Onboarding Comparison by squiffsquiff on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @02:35PM (#26254518)
I suspect that AWS is 'losing money' on this in the same way that Apple are 'losing money' on their high Street retail shops.

Working at a place with AWS enterprise support by contrast, for the second occasion, I would suggest that many of the places paying $15kpm don't cost that to support.

Re:Google Cloud vs. AWS Onboarding Comparison by wegs on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @03:23PM (#26255281)
Yeah. AWS is probably "losing" tens of dollars per month hosting my personal account. They've made a few million dollars in sales as a result. I've personally started several projects on top of AWS which spend that much now. That started with the free tier back when AWS was young.

Google has treated me so badly so many times now on my personal account (as well as on business accounts, for that matter) in so many different ways that they've, conversely, lost MANY million dollars in business sales. It's hard to even count; a lot of people ask me for advise on decisions, and whenever someone even thinks about using Google Cloud in a business setting....

This is not a hole I see Google getting out of, except by eventually shutting down the Google cloud. Too many people have had too many bad experiences, and reputations take a long time to recover.

And the failures just keep on piling up.

Google is great for personal use, but I think they're diversifying in all the wrong directions. They're not structured for success there.

Re:Google Cloud vs. AWS Onboarding Comparison by porker on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @05:19PM (#26256879)
And yet Google Cloud has some great features that AFAIK AWS still hasn't, presumably due to different priorities.

Like regional disks [1] or live migration of compute between hosts if problems are detected with the host.

1. https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/disks#repds

Re:Google Cloud vs. AWS Onboarding Comparison by Aeolun on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @05:29PM (#26257022)
> live migration of compute between hosts

When would you ever want to rely on this? Seems to me like you should have two hosts in the first place.

Re:Google Cloud vs. AWS Onboarding Comparison by manigandham on Thursday February 25, 2021 @08:45AM (#26262655)
Google has been relying on it for years. It's completely seamless and means you get even better reliability by insulating from the underlying hardware issues.
Re:Google Cloud vs. AWS Onboarding Comparison by porker on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @06:03PM (#26257383)
When you don't want to lose the requests already in progress, and to avoid the failover window