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Every Google Cloud service described in 4 words (2021 update)
Author : gw5815
Score : 134 points
Date : 2021-03-03 18:18 UTC (4 hours ago)
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| andrewprock wrote:
| This looks like the kind of documentation I see in code:
|
| int x; // variable x stores ints
| pibefision wrote:
| I need this but from AWS
| tyingq wrote:
| Not quite the same, but helpul:
|
| https://www.awsgeek.com/AWS-Periodic-Table/
|
| https://www.awsgeek.com/AWS-History/ or, as JSON
| https://github.com/AwsGeek/aws-history/blob/master/services....
| stepri wrote:
| Here you go https://adayinthelifeof.nl/2020/05/20/aws.html
| Hamuko wrote:
| > _File / object storage. Not primarily used for mounting as
| filesystem, but you can directly download files through
| HTTP._
|
| Woah, what is this, a novel?
| mywittyname wrote:
| Seriously. Simple Storage Service...
|
| And you still have room for another word.
| sytse wrote:
| https://expeditedsecurity.com/aws-in-plain-english/ might be a
| start
| udev wrote:
| Conveniently on black background for easy printing!
| jtylr wrote:
| Light version here:
| https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gregsramblings/google-clou...
| meddlepal wrote:
| What's the use case for something like "VMWare on Google Compute"
| is it just a API shim to translate VMWare API calls to GCE for
| companies that are trying to lift and shift to the cloud?
| callesgg wrote:
| Yeah. Pretty much.
| mrtrustor wrote:
| GCVE is not an API shim, it's an actual VMWare environment. And
| yes, it's mainly used for lift and shift.
| wcarss wrote:
| https://github.com/gregsramblings/google-cloud-4-words -> this is
| where the PDF appears to be generated from, and it has searchable
| text of the content in its README on the main page, and links to
| docs on each, and the mobile content that got left off the PDF.
| sethvargo wrote:
| Yup - I can confirm that's the source.
|
| Disclaimer: I work for Google Cloud.
| jabo wrote:
| I see some Google Cloud folks in the comments, so question for
| you, if you're able to share:
|
| There seems to be a general fear about Google potentially killing
| off a product, based on recent history [1]. Now I know most of
| these are on the consumer side of things, but you can imagine
| people's concerns if the same thing started happening to Google
| Cloud products. Is the GCP team aware of these concerns, (or is
| this just a HN crowd concern) and if so, are there steps being
| taken to address this perception head on?
|
| [1] https://killedbygoogle.com/
| mrtrustor wrote:
| When a company like Deutsche Bank [1] signs a 10-year deal, you
| can be sure that they have been convinced that the products
| they rely on will not go anywhere.
|
| [1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-07/google-
| de...
|
| (Google Cloud employee here)
| solosoyokaze wrote:
| That actually doesn't mean anything to me when I personally
| have had to deal with the shut off of many, _many_ Google
| products and your competition (AWS) is better in every
| conceivable way.
| vidanay wrote:
| "Cancelled"
|
| (They just haven't announced many of them yet)
| ceejayoz wrote:
| Has to be four words. "I really miss it."
| hateful wrote:
| Thinking the same thing. Anyone compare last years with this
| years!
| idlewords wrote:
| "Good luck getting support"
| makecheck wrote:
| Or perhaps "Soon to be cancelled". :)
| [deleted]
| follower wrote:
| It's Not Killed Yet
| azhenley wrote:
| Can I get this for AWS?
| ciguy wrote:
| The major cloud providers REALLY need to focus on fixing years
| old bugs in their widely used offerings instead of launching new
| ones. I guess the incentives are out of whack tho, since a
| working and widely used but slightly broken offering will be used
| by their existing customers. But if a competitor beats them to
| the next major thing, they will lose customers as they migrate
| over to use it. So they're in a kind of arms race against each
| other to roll out new seemingly obscure offerings in case one of
| them becomes the next thing and sees widespread adoption.
| paxys wrote:
| "Years old bugs" are now features
| ciguy wrote:
| This is somewhat true in that so many people have worked
| around them that a fix would likely break a lot of existing
| users implementations.
| jcims wrote:
| I wonder if it would be possible to run a site where people
| submit and rate bugs/enhancements/workarounds in cloud
| products. E.g. AWS Config doesn't support service X or sharing
| ENIs across NLB target groups can ruin your day.
| ciguy wrote:
| The AWS forums used to have bug reports that were ranked by
| upvotes. AWS didn't seem to pay much attention though, the
| highest voted bugs stayed that way for years with no change
| or acknowledgement. I haven't personally been on their forums
| in years so I have no idea if this is still the case.
| zbowling wrote:
| Mobile got left off the PDF but it's also a part of cloud:
|
| Mobile (Firebase)
|
| * Cloud Firestore: Document store and sync
|
| * Cloud Functions for Firebase: Event-driven serverless
| applications
|
| * Cloud Storage for Firebase: Object storage and serving
| Crashlytics: Crash reporting and analytics
|
| * Firebase A/B Testing: Create A/B test experiments
|
| * Firebase App Distribution: Trusted tester early access
|
| * Firebase Authentication: Drop-in authentication
|
| * Firebase Cloud Messaging: Send device notifications
|
| * Firebase Dynamic Links: Link to app content
|
| * Firebase Extensions: Pre-packaged development solutions
|
| * Firebase Hosting: Web hosting with CDN/SSL
|
| * Firebase In-App Messaging: Send in-app contextual messages
|
| * Firebase Performance Monitoring: App/web performance monitoring
|
| * Firebase Predictions: Predict user targeting
|
| * Firebase Realtime Database: Real-time data synchronization
|
| * Firebase Remote Config: Remotely configure installed apps
|
| * Firebase Test Lab: Mobile testing device farm
|
| * Google Analytics for Firebase: Mobile app analytics
|
| * ML Kit for Firebase: ML APIs for mobile
| sethvargo wrote:
| Thanks, I'll take this feedback back to the team.
|
| Disclaimer: I work for Google Cloud.
| musicale wrote:
| I've always liked Firebase. I'm glad it's still around.
| mywittyname wrote:
| Firebase is kind of weird. It's like a Cloud in a Cloud.
| sa46 wrote:
| I figured the characterization is Firebase is a PaaS
| (similar to Heroku) where Google Cloud is IaaS.
| gw5815 wrote:
| Eek - that's an oversight on our side during the PDF creation
| (copying from the github readme to Indesign) -- it was suppose
| to be on the PDF. We'll update.
| duxup wrote:
| Now I actually want to look at some of these, I didn't know what
| some of these were / existed ... best marketing ever.
| ssijak wrote:
| There are some which are explained in more than 4 words.
| jnwatson wrote:
| Google Cloud really needs better marketing. I didn't have the
| most basic awareness of most of these services.
| jjoonathan wrote:
| They need to throw shade at AWS.
|
| "Google cancels everything" is a meme, but AWS releasing broken
| pre-alpha products, letting old ones rot on the vine, and
| having crazy monetization schemes that are utterly inconsistent
| with marketing is not a meme, even though they do these things
| all the time. If GCP wants to win, they need to fix that,
| because "will I be blamed for the next shitshow" is the key
| question on every architect / purchasing manager's mind, and
| right now AWS is winning that battle to a degree that they do
| not remotely deserve because google is just MIA.
|
| Hell, Google could coordinate with Walmart to hit AWS and
| Amazon at the same time because there is clearly, shall we say,
| a degree of cultural continuity between the Amazon and AWS
| business units.
| [deleted]
| crazysim wrote:
| Do a Project Zero not for security but for usability,
| capability, and pricing against AWS?
| jjoonathan wrote:
| Sure, but it it has to be memeable. Imagine technical
| manages bickering in front of _their_ managers.
|
| "Let me get this straight, Google canceled a service and
| you didn't see it coming?"
|
| ^ this needs a comeback.
|
| "Let me get this straight, you ran into _another_ AWS
| scaling limit and you didn 't see it coming?"
|
| or something.
| folkrav wrote:
| To be perfectly honest I also don't know 90% of AWS's services
| either.
| BenoitP wrote:
| On the other hand AWS and GCP services almost have a 1-to-1
| mapping; so one only need to know one platform to be able to
| start working with the other.
| mywittyname wrote:
| GCP has a few products that AWS doesn't. BigQuery ML and
| Cloud Spanner are a few that I can think of. These might
| have approximations on AWS, but not 1-to-1 feature
| competitors. Plus GCP has one-click integrations with
| pretty much every Google API out there (analytics, ads,
| drive, etc).
|
| It's been a minute since I worked with AWS, but they have
| tons and tons of products. On the order of two, maybe three
| times as many.
|
| The basic stuff like VMs, storage, networking, and managed
| postgres/mysql SQL databases are close, but the specialized
| services can be very different when you look at them
| closely.
| ciguy wrote:
| This isn't exactly true. I have worked extensively with
| Azure, Google Cloud and AWS. While many of their basic
| services do seem to map 1 to 1 there are enough differences
| in the details that it's almost like learning a completely
| new system. At a very high level the basics are relevant,
| but the differences are much greater than you might expect.
| folkrav wrote:
| After 2-3 years of working with one then the other, yes and
| no. They can be quite similar on some accounts, but not
| quite the same. GCP also has that very Google thing of
| having very slightly different yet still kind of competing
| products at the same time.
| mrvenkman wrote:
| Ditto! Sometimes I wonder if the one largest skillsets of
| becoming an AWS "engineer" is learning to memorise the
| service names and how they associate to the service offered!
| enos_feedler wrote:
| What kind of marketing? Google cloud is a highly complex B2B
| product. Do you know what salesforce or oracle sells? As both a
| developer and consumer, I have no idea.
| pionar wrote:
| Salesforce sells a CRM. Oracle sells lawsuits.
| paxys wrote:
| Salesforce sells a CRM is about as descriptive as Google
| sells a cloud. The Salesforce ecosystem consists of
| hundreds of products which are together worth $200B+.
| jariel wrote:
| If you need to publish this you have a product management
| problem. Arguably, some of these things are features not
| products, and should not be branded.
|
| The level of complexity is overwhelming, especially for the
| decreasing marginal returns to effort for most companies for most
| of these services, I suggest that G and AWS need to take a new
| approach here.
| dash2 wrote:
| This. It reminded me of the Periodic Table of Perl 6 Operators,
| another "advert" that really isn't:
| https://www.ozonehouse.com/mark/periodic/
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