> This makes Google the only major cloud that has low-latency single-zone object storage, standard regional object storage,
Absurd claim. S3 Express launched last year.
Absurd claim. S3 Express launched last year.
S3 offers some multi-region replication facilities, but as far as I’ve seen they all come at the cost of inconsistent reads - which greatly complicates application code. GCS dual-region buckets offer strongly consistent metadata reads across multiple regions, transparently fetch data from the source region where necessary, and offer clear SLAs for replication. I don’t think the S3 offerings are comparable. But maybe I’m wrong - I’d love more competition here!
https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/storage-data-transfer...
Entirely different claim.
- single-zone object storage buckets
- regional object storage buckets
- transparently replicated, dual region object storage buckets
I agree that AWS has two of the three. AFAIK AWS does not have multi-region buckets - the closest they have is canned replication between single-region buckets.
S3 does have replication, but it is far from transparent and frought with gotchas.
And it certainly doesn't have all of that with a single API.
To be honest I'm not actually sure how different the API is. I've never used it. I just frequently trip over the existence of parallel APIs for directory buckets (when I'm doing something niche, mostly; I think GetObject/PutObject are the same.)