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oh neat, AWS following GCP instead of the other way around.

Your profile says you work at Google...

I certainly do. On cloud no less. The reality is that Amazon got to market several years before Google, so GCP had some catching up to do. That trend is changing, and this is one indication.

If you're going to post your subjective opinion on something involving your employer vs a competitor it's best to include a disclaimer in future.

What was the subjective opinion? "neat"? The rest was factual.

The subjective opinion was about "following" when Amazon has had relational database services for years, and the latest engine they say was under development for 3 years, not exactly something in response to goog.

Irrespective of that you shouldn't be posting as joe public when in fact you are a Google employee playing cheerleader for Google products on threads about your competitors products. Keep it classy.

We're not talking about a relational database, we're talking about a mysql-wire-compatible database. Google BigQuery has been around for a while too.

Adding "disclaimer: googler" to every post I make on HN seems pretty obnoxious to both me and anyone reading. I just didn't feel that "neat" + a fact qualified. Clearly opinions on that differ, and I'll probably just post less in the future.

It's only necessary in cases where there is an obvious conflict of interest.

That's fair. It's certainly not my intention to astroturf.

What is GCP?

Google Cloud Platform.

In his defence even googling GCP doesn't return that as a result on the first page. I was searching for the same thing.

GCP is largely used as the acronym for "Good Clinical Practice" and has been around a heck of a lot longer than Google.

Most acronyms (especially TLAs) get overloaded daily. Being first means next to nothing, in this space.

care to explain?

CloudSQL on gce is mysql on bigtable afaicr, its been around for a few years.

EDIT: actually it looks like cloudsql might actually be a mysql.. also on gce they max out 16gb of ram and 100gb of storage

Aurora max looks like it's 64TB, that's 640 times larger, which I guess is what you're hinting at.

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