Understanding Google Zanzibar and Why it Shines at Building Permissions

Re:Understanding Google Zanzibar and Why it Shines at Buildi... by re-thc on Sunday June 25, 2023 @08:17PM (#36474110)

> but it seems to me that GCP is behind both AWS and Azure in terms of dev mindshare

AWS has 1st mover advantage and the biggest ecosystem.

Azure has Microsoft behind it = everyone that used Office, Sharepoint, SQL Server, C#, etc that wanted to move to the cloud.

Google doesn't have such a backing. Oracle cloud (huge growth) might be stronger in that sense.

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Re:Understanding Google Zanzibar and Why it Shines at Buildi... by iainmerrick on Sunday June 25, 2023 @08:32PM (#36474209)

I agree, but it’s surprising that things are that way, especially as they’re not short of cash. If they have this big tech edge over their competitors, where’s the benefit?

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Re:Understanding Google Zanzibar and Why it Shines at Buildi... by re-thc on Sunday June 25, 2023 @08:49PM (#36474312)

> If they have this big tech edge over their competitors, where’s the benefit?

Most of it is behind huge paywalls compared to their competitors. There's e.g. no serverless version of spanner that is pay-per-usage. Same with Big Table. Even the newly released AlloyDB has a huge starting cost.

If no 1 knows and no 1 can feel for the advantage it doesn't really help.

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