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Glad to see it! And for those AWS customers, you're welcome [1].

Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud.

[1] https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/signing-up-c...

Can you please stop? Your plugging is honestly spamming. You're doing this on every post related to Azure and AWS. What would the comments section become if every engineer working on AWS, Azure and GCE starts plugging their own clouds?

This is extremely unprofessional.

Should all the AWS and Azure employees post "You're Welcome" once we see a HN post about Google Cloud finally getting around to supporting IPv6?

This is the same guy gloating during the S3 outage a few weeks ago, just ignore and more on.

Honestly, yes. Competition is great. There's a difference between "commercial terms we choose not to offer" and real technical effort, but I've repeatedly admitted and cursed our failures.

Your comments are helpful, especially on the GCP threads. However nuance is very important in how you convey your message and your original post just wasn't in good taste.

If you had said: "GCP also released a similar pricing model last week, it's great to see competition" - the reception here would've been vastly different. Please consider that for your future posts.

What's funny is that the core of your offering is copied/inspired from AWS.

Eh. Neither Amazon nor "anyone" else invented the discounts for commitments model. We were very resistant for a long time (me especially), but customers simply demanded that we give them a discount if they'd promise to run 24x7 (and for databases that does make a lot of sense).

The original commenter means that Amazon invented cloud computing as we know it today. You're welcome.

Disclosure: I work on AWS

(See how annoying that is?)

Not at all!

Just keep digging; maybe it'll be more annoying once you've hit the lower crust.

But wait. Google created the internet so Amazon can now do business. And Apple invented the PC so both Amazon and Google can do business. Knuth invented computer science so all three of them can engage in business. And von Neumann was Knuth's daddy, because he basically invented computing, without which none of you would have done anything particularly useful.

And as von Neumann's ghost, I have a message for y'all: "Stop it, you pathetic loser chumps! Y'all are too stupid to even identify real innovation if it came and slapped you in the face all day"

I liked the link for my TIL. AWS has lowered prices whenever GC steps up, so thanks GC.

Call me when google provide a service similar to AWS Certificate Manager.

AWS Certificate Manager is a boon. Easier even than LetsEncrypt. Saved me over $1500 on wildcard SSL certs renewals this year alone!

Interested in how it's easier than LetsEncrypt. Does it automatically renew your certificates?

Actually, no auto renew, but it is 12 month lifetime, not 90 days.

Renewal is slightly quicker than initial setup, which is only a few mouse clicks on the console. No need to ever root access into the servers to set up auto renewal scripts.

Attaching Cert Manager SSL certs to Elastic Beanstalk load balancers is a matter of a couple of mouse clicks too. Once again no need to fiddle with multiple servers that are spooled up or down based on demand to install LetsEncrypt client software or renewal scripts.

Guys, you became so annoying on HN.

I don't know why you are being downvoted so badly, maybe you should elaborate on your point?

I can see how it might be annoying but it's also probably for the best to have these guys commenting on here.

Sorry if that bothers you (those are often both me). I'm disturbingly addicted to HN, but more than anything I wish AWS would let their folks comment here more freely.

They don't allow that because it's easy for employees to come across tone deaf, kind of like you. You may not realize it but making comments on here like this can actually hurt the Google cloud brand. All it takes is one decision maker to think you sound too cocky to work with and you're out of a deal.

So, people in AWS and other parts of Amazon are totally allowed to comment on social media. I do! that's not to say there's a lot of people commenting on social media in any offical capacity, because a lot of people don't want to mix work and personal time like that.

I usually only put on my AWS hat when someone has a question and I know the answer, or when somebody says "X sucks". Not because I think they aren't allowed to say "X sucks" (because it probably did for them!), but because you can't really do anything with that. Why did it suck for you? What would make it not suck?

To HN's credit, everyone I've asked to explain why their experience sucked has given pretty thorough responses, which is helpful for figuring out whats really important to all of ya'll.

We can comment just fine, don't worry.

I changed the tone of my comment, or at least tried to.

More power to you man, I think I was reacting more to the users benign comment being down voted than to your comments.

Nice post. Looks like an advert.

Ask HN: Static Sites on Google Cloud https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13864566

This is advertising, it doesn't belong on a discussion forum. It makes me much less likely to use Google Cloud.

+1 It doesn't engender trust or goodwill towards the vendor. I had thought about experimenting with GC, but now think I will simply stick to AWS and Digital Ocean - you know, companies that quietly just get on with their thing...

That HN comment wasn't the greatest but yours says even more if you base your technology decisions on it.

Why yes, I completely forgot that nobody on this planet ever bases their buying decisions on frivolous things like trust, ethics and the spirit of fair play & doing the right thing??

You were able to accurately judge the trust and ethics of the entire Google Cloud organization, full of thousands of people and billions in R&D and commercial offerings, based on a single comment?

Millions and millions of people every day make their decision to continue custom with a major multi national corporation based on their interactions with people at the very bottom of the organisational chart, such as checkout staff, ticket inspectors, gatekeepers and telephone support personnel.

It is human nature. Part of life. I am assuming you don't work in a sales or marketing capacity, nor run your own business if you don't believe this is the case.

In my situation, I am extremely happy with DO and AWS. Using GC was not a 'need' case, merely a curiosity and in an experimental capacity to see if it offered anything more than the incumbents. It won't take much at all for me to ascertain that it is not worth my time and effort. Yes, A snarky comment from a representative on a public forum is enough to tip the scales.

> It is human nature. Part of life. I am assuming you don't work in a sales or marketing capacity, nor run your own business if you don't believe this is the case.

I run a B2B marketing company. Subjectiveness and incomplete information is "Part of life" sure, but that doesn't mean certain (or most) decisions don't warrant a higher standard of review.

> It won't take much at all for me to ascertain that it is not worth my time and effort. Yes, A snarky comment from a representative on a public forum is enough to tip the scales.

If it won't take much to ascertain then why not try a proper review? And surely the actual offering itself is far more pertinent than an HN thread?

This only underscores my point that a decision on cloud infrastructure shouldn't be swayed so easily by a single personal off-hours comment from an employee of a massive organization. I would be very disappointed if anyone in my company decided to be make decisions as a result of that instead of the merits of the service itself.

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