Google Cloud Compute Engine goes live

[mik3y]

So now might be as good a time as any to ask: any happy GCE-using EC2 refugees that have tools/tips to share after making the jump?

I saw someone tried to add GCE support to boto a while back [1], but after some discussion it seems there was a decision not to support it [2]. (I don't know enough about the platform differences to say whether it make sense..)

[1] https://github.com/boto/boto/pull/1159

[2] https://groups.google.com/d/msg/boto-dev/fNM7AFM1Ors/x-nf_MS...

[res0nat0r]

Mitch now works for AWS, and he probably can barely keep up with adding all of the new features that AWS releases plus the exiting boto bugs, so I'm guessing GCE support on top of that is out of scope and the project is just focused on supporting any and all AWS features?

[jgemedina]

Same %, still amazon might beat GCE when it comes to features.

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/120313-google-compute-...

[tbarbugli]

I am not going to move from EC2 with this prices and with this features and community. I hope they are going to make it more appealing soon :)

[txutxu]

For those planning "wow, I can use the google datacenters, to scale to such level", first check this part:

https://developers.google.com/compute/docs/resource-quotas

Just in case.

[dekhn]

In particular, see the form at the bottom to request more resources: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1vb2MkAr9JcHrp6myQ3oTxCyBv2c...

[kevando]

About time! I'm not entirely sure what GCE is, but if it means Google puts more effort into appengine I'm all for it. Besides, AWS needs a valid competitor that it has no chance of buying.

[rurounijones]

> GCE "is a long-term strategic bet for the company," said Brian Goldfarb, Google's head of cloud platform marketing, adding that "we have an incredibly high bar for what general availability means."

and

> The company has established a service level agreement (SLA) where it guarantees GCE to be available 99.95% of the time

Doesn't seem to match. (99.95% is a really high bar? 20 minutes per month? from Google?! )

[EDIT] Misunderstanding of the vocabulary on my part, read further down.

[nknighthb]

Yes it's a high bar. This isn't electricity or a phone line. There are complex layers on top of complex layers. And they are going to come crashing down at some point. The cost of ensuring otherwise scales non-linearly. I don't want my VM to cost a substantial fraction of a Space Shuttle, thank you.

[rll]

Seems they are just trying to match EC2 here, not beat them. http://aws.amazon.com/ec2-sla/ says 99.95% as well.

[thezilch]

Rackspace will only give 3 9s.

[mnml_]

Expensive, and good luck getting client trust back after what they did with App Engine.

[tiziano88]

What's wrong with GAE? Honest question, I was considering deploying my next project there

[anvarik]

It would be really cool if they provide a free trial account as Amazon though.