Claudio Vallesi
Jul 22, 2017 · 1 min read

I work in a small/medium company and we used GCP since a couple of years. Now we don’t have a devops and I take care of everything that can be considered devops even if I come from a backend developer background. I never passed through AWS and from time to time I hear colleagues from inside and outside this company telling me that I should evaluate AWS.

So obviously I checked, on several different occasions, and everytime I wondered if they were trying to make a joke or something.

I don’t really understand how a sane person could choose AWS over GCP after seen what the latter can do if you invest enough in learning how to use the tools they offer.

Let’s be clear, it requires anyway the knowledge a devops need to have to have if you want to manage a big infrastructure. But in case you have a small infrastructure, even a person coming from a different background (like me) can learn how to setup and mantain everything with some effort. That should say a lot on how much effort google put in automating most tedious/hard tasks.

Not to mention the whole array of service offered by google that are insanely easier to use if you’re already inside the GCP. Just think about the whole array of AI APIs (Language, Image, Video, etc).

It’s quite frustrating also that whenever I receive the occasional offer from other companies, they always require AWS knowledge. It means that really the “user-base” is still behind what the current technology have to offer.

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