[Guest98123]

Whether you're on Amazon or Google, one thing is certain, we're going to have some amazing services and options available due to the competition between the two, and both of them fighting for market share.

I'm on AWS at the moment, and I'm in no hurry to jump ship, because I know Amazon is going to be forced to stay competitive with comparable services and pricing. In 3 or 5 years, if there's a clear winner, I'll make the switch, but for now, it's going to be fun just watching everything unfold.

[rascoe]

I don't think switching will be the answer, but rather federation. We are currently deploying new services on Kubernetes and we can run isolated Kubernetes clusters on either GCP (not just GKE), or on AWS.

While we aren't to the point of using cluster federation for production yet, this is the next logical step. I see a, not to distant, future where we have cluster federation across on premise, GCP, and AWS clusters.

If, like us, your all in on the container Kool-Aid, then I believe the future looks a lot like policy based Kubernetes scheduling across federated clusters. Policy factors like geolocation, spot pricing, resource requirements, SLOs, etc... are all configureable to the app developer and transparently effected by pluggable Kubernetes schedulers.

[ma2rten]

Is it practical to replicate your data between clouds?