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I would like to hear what platform bits of AWS that you find lacking in Google Cloud. Google's ecosystem of fully managed services is very rich broad and compelling, and in many ways far ahead of competition.

(work on Google Cloud but don't get paid to post here)

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For me the two big things missing from Google Cloud are a PostgreSQL service and a Redis service. I'd also need an alternative to CodeDeploy, but I think I could something that wouldn't be too terrible to self-host.

> in many ways far ahead of competition

Yep. In my experience, when Google Cloud does something, they do it right.

Thanks for your feedback!

Managed Postgres.

Hit me up offline - this is one gap Google's had, I admit. On the other hand, you've always been able to run managed postgres through a partner.

Let me know if there are any others that you feel strongly about?

For those devs who need to convince senior management and big clients “managed by a partner“ does not cut it. They want to hear a reliable name like Amazon or Google. A small unfamiliar brand doesn't give them confidence on reliability front. Many of these people have paid to MS and Oracle just for this purpose. For example on Google's G Suite FAQ there is a big document which details out the elaborate measures Google takes on security front and about no unauthorized access to data. It's unlikely that a smaller third party partner will have same diligence as that of Google or Amazon.

I do not remember to have read about Google equivalent of EFS yet. This can make it relatively easy to migrate legacy apps to cloud.

And as the other comment says above, familiarity. We have around 20 programmers at our company who are comfortable managing deployments on AWS. We had to spend a lot of time and money on their training. Google hasn't given the 10x reason for us to switch.

Well, there's always IBM: https://www.compose.com/postgresql

I hear you, this is all good feedback.

Why hit you up offline?

I don't want some 3rd party to manage Postgres. I want something seemless like RDS.

I also found that it's easier to launch an Elastic Beanstalk Docker app with a Postgres RDS instance. I'm hoping Google's Flexible Environment will address this, but I was not able to get it to deploy. To be fair, I only tried for a bit yesterday and gave up.

It'd be great if you can share how to best spin up a managed Postgres instance.

I'm using GKE and it has been working like a charm so far.

What should I hit you up offline about?

Nothing. This is just a tactic to "silence" critics.

I'm actually offering direct dialogue. A few folks emailed me already, and I encourage you to as well. This is my idea of a peaceful Sunday:)

Direct Connect

Cloud Interconnect is the equivalent to this on GCP.

No, that is not correct. Direct Connect is a superset of functionality to Cloud Interconnect. Specifically, RFC 1918 networks over BGP on physical links are missing from Cloud Interconnect. Google engineers have a plan for this functionality and a code name. No date estimate has been made available (at least to us).

Ah! You're correct. Sorry about that!

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