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I mainly use GCP but keep hearing how great AWS is in comparison.

Imagine my surprise when porting some GCS code to S3 last year and realizing there is no way to get consistency guarantees without external lock service.



> I mainly use GCP but keep hearing how great AWS is in comparison.

Where do you keep hearing this?

Having used both, AWS is trash in comparison. It's way to complicated to do anything simple. At work I wish we could migrate to GCP (or just something that's not AWS, really).


All my coworkers who mainly used AWS before say that. I agree with you, but my AWS experience is quite limited, so what do I know.

But I feel like being used to something + grass being greener on other side both play a big role in these opinions.


Distributed locks are a lie


That would surprise me too considering read-after-write consistency came to S3 like 5 years ago?


IIRC (it has been a while) the difference is that on Amazon it can only be consistent within a region whereas on GCS I believe even multi-region buckets offer strong consistency.


Ahh. That makes sense!




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