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Why Google Cloud is battling AWS, Azure, in the red-hot PostgreSQL market infoworld.com/article/366054 The "why" is answered in the title ("red hot"). Perhaps a better question: what changed at Google? A PostgreSQL service is good for customers, but for personal promo...?

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Why Google Cloud is battling AWS, Azure, in the red-hot PostgreSQL market

Google Cloud's AlloyDB for PostgreSQL has moved into public preview, and as a Postgres-compatible, fully managed DBaaS (database-as-a-service), will take on offerings from AWS and Microsoft in the...

Matt Asay

@mjasay

May 20

Meaning, I've heard (many times) that promos inside Google are tied to building gee-whiz things, not something like AlloyDB. Not sure it's actually true, but it does seem like AlloyDB should've been built many moons ago. Has something changed at Google Cloud?

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Aurora has a lot of mindshare. It checks a lot of "board room table" boxes: performance, durability. Those ex-Oracle sales folks aren't going to make commission if they are constantly losing deals over Aurora. You're right about moons, but writing a net-new storage tier is hard!

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I also have some concerns about lock-in. But I'm sure that Google mostly pursued AlloyDB because disaggregated storage on top of Postgres actually makes a lot of sense for some use cases. That should not be dismissed.

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