I work with Hadoop so I come across or sometimes management ask me a common question, “Why we need Hadoop in cloud” and to answer this question I keep my bold points ready like below…
- Cloud is your data center, No need to deal with reliability & scaling issues.
- Pay What You Need.
- Deployed in Minutes.
- Cloud storage enables economic flexibility, scale, and rich features.
- Size clusters independent of storage needs and price continues decreasing.
- Geo-Redundancy allows for business continuity/disaster recovery planning.
Now they move forward to ask me a detail comparison and to find out the difference between GCP and AWS. So here is list for all of you as well.
| Amazon | Google Cloud | |
| 1 | AWS (Amazon Web Services) has become one of the leading cloud providers | |
| 2 | Simple email service and a content delivery network. | Waiting from GCS to add |
| 3 | Above enables you to reach customers in other parts of the world that aren’t otherwise reachable using other providers. |
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| 4 | Google have superior network service due to using their own fiber network. | |
| 5 | gateways through their network, which can sometimes enhance performance | |
| 6 | Amazon uses elastic block storage with three different types: Magnetic volumes, SSD volumes for general purpose, and IOPS SSD volumes. |
Google’s storage, they use both standard and solid-state systems. |
| 7 | Amazon uses the latest encryption technology. | They take security seriously as well with all your data getting encrypted in transit. |
| 8 | 16TB capacity | Each disk gets up to 10TB of storage |
| 9 | Amazon uses network ACL’s | At Google, they use a firewall |
| 10 | ACL’s (access control lists), as well as security groups that get controlled by permissions. | Firewall to regulate all outgoing traffic to assure hackers don’t infiltrate your data while it’s being sent to the cloud. |
| 11 | SLA:guaranteed a 99.95% uptime | SLA:guaranteed a 99.95% uptime |
| 12 | The quantity and quality of the services available on AWS is extremely broad and wide, and it builds up a huge set of opportunities for many different needs. But if you want to train people on AWS devops/gotchas. | Google cloud has started late to add services and yes it is getting pace. |
| 13 | IPv6 is not available natively in AWS | Supported |
| 14 | AWS Lambda is Python 2.7 only, no Python 3 | Lambda is supported to all version of Python |
| 15 | According to User Experience web UI to access services is very heavy and sometime separate browser for cloudwatch logs and S3 because the native UI is just bad.(Alternative is https://www.terraform.io/) | Good Web UI. |
| 16 | AWS uses 2FA to validate users | |
| 17 | ELB (load balancer on AWS) not have a fixed IP. An ELB can only be accessed over a DNS name, and the underlying IP can change every 60 second. ELB (Load Balancer) still has scaling problems. | GCE has had load balancers with fixed IPs forever. |
| 18 | AMI only exists in a single region. All services on AWS are acutely region centric. It’s not possible to create a host with it in another region. It’s not even possible to take that existing AMI and push it to another region. | Google is not region centric like that. It’s a lot easier to manage at planet scale. |
| 19 | Postgres RDS is a matter for some therefore RDS is one area where AWS is significantly better than many of their competitors. | Google don’t have any equivalent offer on RDS |
| 20 | Message Bus: AWS will make your head spin with SNS, SQS, Kinesis, Kinesis Streams and Kinesis Firehose. | GCP has only Pub/Sub which just works and is insanely scalable. |
| 21 | Google Cloud is If you want we to work on infrastructure that runs YouTube, Gmail and Google Analytics | |
| 22 | AWS is at 2.6 billion | GCP has quarterly revenue close to a billion, that includes Google apps for work and other SaaS services |
| 23 | GCE should be important to Google | Amazon has a retail business on the side. Their profits are: 66% of Amazon’s profits last quarter are from its cloud biz. |
| 24 | AWS IAM policies are complicated and hard to navigate. | |
| 25 | EC2/VPC (compute) didn’t have a simple NAT-instance until a few months ago |
Hope you too have some points add on to above list. Please go ahead add to below comment section.
Thanks!