[sethvargo]

Hey all - Seth from Google here.

Thank you to the authors who worked on this report. These types of reports help us better understand the ways in which our customers and partners utilize our platform. Our team is reviewing the report and will provide a response as we conduct our own benchmarks.

Varying factors impact these types of benchmark analyses, many of which are difficult to isolate and control. As an example, I refer to some of the benchmarks others have posted in this very thread.

As a technical practitioner, I'm positive there are areas in which cloud A outperforms cloud B and vice versa, giving users choice and flexibility. As an employee of Google, I can assure you that we are committed to providing best in class performance and availability on our platform.

Thank you for your patience as we review these findings and craft our responses.

[peferron]

Where do you intend to publish your response? GCP blog [1]? I'd like to make sure I won't miss it, and this HN thread may be buried by the time you come up with a response.

[1] https://cloud.google.com/blog/

[sethvargo]

Hi there - sorry for the delayed response. I'm still working on getting an answer here, but I didn't want to give the impression that I was ignoring the question. My suspicion is that we'll either work with the original authors or publish on the GCP blog, but I can't confirm any of those options at this time.

[cybernoodles]

bump

[ahmedalsudani]

Bumping does not work on HN. If you want to give something visibility, upvote it.

[dekhn]

To me, the most interesting part is the large variance in networking performance on GCP while AWS networking is solid (and in line roughly with what you'd see on a good 10gbit network). Variance in networking performance is far worse than a low mean, but in this case not only is the GCP mean much lower, as well as the variance higher.

[bradknowles]

TIL that Seth Vargo is now working at Google.

Dude, I sure hope they deserve having you on board. I am not at all convinced that they are capable of understanding just how much you bring to the table.

My opinion of them has definitely gone up a few notches.

[socceroos]

Where will we find the responses?

[lallysingh]

Probably on the front page of HN.

[cybernoodles]

Not if its "AWS outperforms GCP" - Google

[lallysingh]

It'll be something like, at least, GCP outperforms AWS on things that aren't cockroachlabs

[coherentpony]

If you review the findings and then respond with, "Actually, GCP outperforms AWS," how many pinches of salt should we take your response with?

[sam0x17]

Yeah, again, all this really shows is that instance types don't translate well across cloud platforms comparison-wise because they are strictly different. See other posts.