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Thank you very much! Oh, a really good question. We are still in both AWS and GCP. I could write a lot more (and maybe I will if I have time) but I'll summarize here. Our migration turned out AWESOME! Getting out of our bare metal data centers was so important for us. Our total cost of ownership to operate and maintain our systems has gone down and even more importantly for us, our engineers have been able to use native cloud technologies and auto-scaling to build and operate new features and software so much faster than we would if we were still in our data centers.
We're still in both AWS and GCP but have found AWS much stronger overall in terms of breadth of quality managed services we can utilize. For example, their Lambda product is way ahead of Google's serverless (functions I think it's called) so we are using Lambda a lot. Google still has a lot of data services we love. We're going to remain in both for now and leverage their strengths. For example, when we're trying to determine which technology is right to solve a particular problem, we get to choose between both GCP and AWS options, which is great. There is some overhead in that but it has been a lot less than we imagined it could be.
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You talked about using both Amazon Web Services and Google Compute Platform. At the time you were in the middle of migrating to the cloud.
How did that migration turn out and is your multi-vendor approach still something you're happy about?
Thank you very much! Oh, a really good question. We are still in both AWS and GCP. I could write a lot more (and maybe I will if I have time) but I'll summarize here. Our migration turned out AWESOME! Getting out of our bare metal data centers was so important for us. Our total cost of ownership to operate and maintain our systems has gone down and even more importantly for us, our engineers have been able to use native cloud technologies and auto-scaling to build and operate new features and software so much faster than we would if we were still in our data centers.
We're still in both AWS and GCP but have found AWS much stronger overall in terms of breadth of quality managed services we can utilize. For example, their Lambda product is way ahead of Google's serverless (functions I think it's called) so we are using Lambda a lot. Google still has a lot of data services we love. We're going to remain in both for now and leverage their strengths. For example, when we're trying to determine which technology is right to solve a particular problem, we get to choose between both GCP and AWS options, which is great. There is some overhead in that but it has been a lot less than we imagined it could be.