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> I would like to hear what platform bits of AWS that you find lacking in Google Cloud.

RDS instances with Postgresql.

This is the one that comes up. Hit me up offline. Also, you can always use any number of partners that provide this functionality.

Let me know if there are any others.

From the top of my head, a managed Elasticsearch a-la-elastic-cloud would be very interesting. Their offering is expensive and very frustrating if you don't have a paid support contract. AWS has something similar, but lacking features (kopf, kibana, marvel, etc)

AWS Elasticsearch has kibana built in when you spin up your ES instances.

Thanks!

Python support needs improvement. The standard environment is limited, and the flexible environment is still in beta.

Py3k would be nice.

The 'flexible environment' supports 2.7 and 3.4, and any Python package that works on Debian Linux.

https://cloud.google.com/python/quickstarts

Yea. Even on gsutil 4.22 you gotta switch off your virtualenv before you can list your files. https://pypi.python.org/pypi/gsutil

> Also, you can always use any number of partners that provide this functionality.

Like AWS?

Yup, both leverage partners where their offerings are not present.

> Google's ecosystem of fully managed services is very rich broad and compelling, and in many ways far ahead of competition.

I see.

I'm not sure where I'm being inconsistent. Both AWS and Google have broad spectrum of fully managed services. There are places where Google lacks and AWS doesn't, and there are places where Google is superior, or where AWS lacks.

In both cases, there are partners that enrich these ecosystems.

You asked for a gap and when one was clearly identified, you went into a weird defensive sales mode. "partner" solutions are often garbage compared to a real native solution, so AWS is much better in this regard.

Sorry if I came off defense. I said that it's a valid concern in this thread, should have been more clear I suppose.

THis is in alpha on google

Where? They list all of their alphas here: https://cloud.google.com/sdk/gcloud/reference/alpha/

That's the list of alpha CLI commands, and is only related to an alpha service in that it won't outpace it.

Most alpha services do not yet have gcloud support.

Thanks for the feedback!

I'm PM for another Google Cloud database (not Cloud SQL), but will share this with the team.

Elasticache (redis/memcache)

Postgres

Integrated domains (a la R53)

S-N/E/Q-S

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