Yet I have the feeling GCP is the one which has been improving the most the quality of its offering.
It's interesting to monitor what's happening with data-warehouses for instance.
It almost feels AWS is having its "Kodak moment" with Redshift: a very remunerative but old technology in which they are deeply invested in.
It prevents them to put more effort behind solutions that decouple compute from storage (see Athena) and as a result they are offering a subpar competitor to BigQuery.
As in not phasing out products? That's more of a problem with Google than GCP itself.
GCP has its problems (heard bad things about CloudSQL support for Postgres), but it does seem to be willing to innovate when it sees an opportunity for it.
My point is about AWS being reluctant to embrace new technologies that could damage the ones it's deeply invested in.
See Athena vs Redshift or Kubernetes vs ECS (the latter having much better support). That's what I meant by "Kodak moment".
It's almost a crime that Azure is winning against GCP, like an old jalopy out-selling a Tesla. Yet this article touches upon why, with inferior tech, Microsoft is killing it. Good on them for their business relationship management.
It's interesting to monitor what's happening with data-warehouses for instance.
It almost feels AWS is having its "Kodak moment" with Redshift: a very remunerative but old technology in which they are deeply invested in.
It prevents them to put more effort behind solutions that decouple compute from storage (see Athena) and as a result they are offering a subpar competitor to BigQuery.