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Best data story? They are sorely lacking a strong distributed database offering. Athena is slow and hard to optimize, and redshift does not hyperscale - that's why everyone switched to snowflake. These are the fundamentals of a data function at any company. GCP has bigquery, such itself serves enough use that companies could consider leaving AWS.

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The company I work for uses GCP primarily for bigquery. The rest of compute followed so we didn't have to pay all of the networking fees to use aws.

Agreed. BigQuery, Cloud Spanner and Firebase are unique products which no other cloud provider can match even in the slightest. I think these things are a pull factor into GCP and everything else can be easily replaced once people decided to just move everything into GCP.

I got sucked into GCP because GKE is (still) much more advanced than EKS or AKS and that alone was a pull factor for me, let alone the other services which I mentioned.

I don’t actually know that much about the AWS ecosystem at all but to me from the outside I wouldn’t even consider doing anything greenfield there they already seem so far behind in terms of offerings some of which you touched on there but the actual list is much longer AFAIK.

Does anyone who’s less ignorant than me want to give me a run down of why AWS holds so much appeal? Is it purely non technical reasons? Are they doing a much better job than GCP in areas I just am not aware about?

I ask as a genuine question to learn more despite how it may read…

AWS is the cloud standard. It's not fancy, it's not cheap, but it does it's job. There is more widespread knowledge around it vs the other clouds => it's easier to hire, imo not the best way to hire but lots of companies do it that way. It's probably what MS Windows is for the desktop.

That was the impression I had from the outside. They were clearly number 1 for a long time and I guess that’s when everyone made the decision and now the idea of migrating is not feasible for most.

From someone not used to GCP Cloud Spanner and Big Query sounds like great products but the general trend seems to be to go with AWS or Azure. Maybe their solutions are good enough.

We have started to use CosmosDb and it scales enough for us.

Redshift pulls down $100s of millions in annual revenue as far as I can tell. Not everyone is switching.

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