It's now a matter of when we all move to AWS and Azure, not if.
If you really think that the "grass is greener on the other side"...
No, the real solution is to stay away from Big Tech and cloud in general.
If you really think that the "grass is greener on the other side"...
No, the real solution is to stay away from Big Tech and cloud in general.
Now with Azure, basically they’re making that available to smaller scale players as well.
Meanwhile Google operate GCP in fundamentally the same way they operate free Gmail accounts: hey, this stuff is super neat! So neat actually you bunch of freeloaders are not allowed to complain if this free and neat thing spectacularly breaks once in a while! Wait…you pay for this stuff? Naaah!
They have human support and have proper Enterprise Agreements that don’t turn off your business because some heuristic tripped.
You have to get enough traction on social media to get on someone important at the company’s feed
A false negative security alert from 6 months earlier was the cause, which had blocked CC changes. It took months to resolve but it was manageable.
I know from first hand from a different experience that you can be months overdue with tens of thousands of missing payments on AWS, and tens of thousands in recurring costs without them closing your account. You can effectively run a quarter of credit line from your hosting costs without any issue if you need that.
Your account manager doesn’t even start raising it personally for the first 3 months, they are very easy to deal with.
Google is big. As are Microsoft and Amazon. Google has bad customer service, therefore so do Microsoft and Amazon.
You tried to x in the cloud. You had a bad experience. Therefore the cloud is bad.
In reality of course big companies are not the same. Bigness does not imply sameness. Google support is well known to be rubbish. Microsoft and Amazon support are well known to be excellent. If support matters to you (like when things go wrong) then take that into consideration.
Same for the cloud. There are advantages and disadvantages sure, but providers are different. Google likes to kill services. Others don't. Startups vanish as often as they appear.
Tech is not the only place where you see this false equivalence. All politicians are the same. All fast-food is equally crap. All cars have the same gas mileage. Turns out, no, they are very different, but you need to dig deeper to understand their differences.