AWS, MongoDB Extend Partnership as Google Cloud Raises Prices, Cuts Jobs
Plus, new capabilities from Oracle Cloud and Vultr optimizes its cloud compute portfolio.
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AWS and MongoDB will join forces for another six years, officially. There will probably be more work to come after that, but for now, the companies have signed an expanded “strategic collaboration agreement.” That’s what AWS calls all of its big partnerships with vendors that augment its cloud services platforms.
MongoDB — which, as an overarching description, focuses on “big data” — targets developers with its database offerings. Part of its appeal is that, through AWS, MongoDB users don’t have to provision servers.
This latest SCA with AWS means joint customers can more easily adopt more cloud, do integrated sales and marketing, train developers and take advantage of “technology integrations and commercial incentives to streamline the migration of on-premises workloads to MongoDB Atlas on AWS,” MongoDB said.
Learn more on the next slide.
The expanded SCA between MongoDB and AWS aims to keep honing the customer experience, MongoDB said. That means the two companies will work together across sales, customer support, solution architecture, marketing and other areas. MongoDB said it intends to make its Atlas database “an exceptional experience for developers on AWS globally.”
To enable that, MongoDB is adding workload migration incentives as well as more tools that help end users move from legacy technologies in on-premises data centers to MongoDB Atlas on AWS.
MongoDB and AWS will deliver new joint capabilities for serverless, AWS Graviton processors and AWS Outposts. Finally, the expanded SCA also supports MongoDB’s expansion into more AWS Regions around the globe, as well as U.S. Public Sector with FedRAMP authorization.
The expanded AWS-MongoDB SCA comes not long after MongoDB announced a pay-as-you-go MongoDB Atlas offering on the AWS Marketplace. AWS also has updated its management console to make finding Atlas easier.
“MongoDB has been both a customer and trusted AWS partner for years,” Ruba Borno, vice president of worldwide channels and alliances at AWS, said. “MongoDB shares a mindset of driving innovation, improving reliability and ensuring we support customers’ efforts to become more data-driven organizations in the cloud, whether they’re startups or enterprises, working in the private or public sector.”
AWS announces Strategic Collaboration Agreements on a regular basis. One of the latest came from and with Rackspace.
A couple notable things are happening at Google Cloud.
First, reports abound this week that the world’s third-largest public cloud provider is about to get a whole lot pricier.
In a March 14 blog, Sachin Gupta, vice president and general manager at Google Cloud Infrastructure said the following will take place on Oct. 1:
• Cloud storage pricing changes for data mobility, including replication of data written to a dual- or multi-region storage bucket, and inter-region data access.
• Introduction of a new lower-cost archive snapshot option for Persistent Disk, so compliance/archiving use cases are charged less than compute-intensive DevOps workloads.
• New outbound data processing pricing for Cloud Load Balancing, “in line with other leading cloud providers.”
• New pricing for network topology, which will include performance dashboard within the network intelligence center at no extra charge.
Gupta said the changes come after years of Google Cloud’s “significant investments” in infrastructure products.
What will the pricing impact be? Find out on the next slide.
When it comes to Google Cloud’s upcoming pricing changes, here’s what Gupta has to say:
“The impact of the pricing changes depends on customers’ use cases and usage. While some customers may see an increase in their bills, we’re also introducing new options for some services to better align with usage, which could lower some customers’ bills. In fact, many customers will be able to adapt their portfolios and usage to decrease costs. We’re working directly with customers to help them understand which changes may impact them.”
Customers under existing contracts, with a floating or fixed discount, will not see any changes until renewal, Gupta said.
“Our goal is to help our customers manage any impact of these changes and allow time for them to adjust or modify their implementations,” he added.
But speaking of time, did Google Cloud give enough to some of its recently laid-off support employees? Go to the next slide.
More than 1,400 Google workers have reportedly signed a petition asking the company to rethink the way it laid off 100 Google Cloud staff a couple weeks ago.
Supposedly, engineers, program managers and other support folks were given 60 days to find new roles within Google — and some of those people say they only found out they’d lost their jobs through news reports.
According to the petition, obtained by Protocol: “Google has continued to maintain that workers are simply being offered an opportunity to transfer. This ignores the reality that many workers do not qualify for currently available roles and the complexity of the transfer process means that most workers are facing the termination of their livelihood in under two months.”
Petition authors are asking Google Cloud to extend that 60 days to 180.
Google Cloud made the cuts just before the announcement of the $5.4 billion Mandiant acquisition.
Google Cloud could have made the job cuts for a couple of key reasons.
1. The division of Alphabet might finally be feeling investor pressure to shore up quarterly earnings and actually start reporting a profit, not just feel good about its revenue increases. After all, Google Cloud — usually through CFO Ruth Porat — has insisted for years that it’s just keen to put money into the business and fuel its strategy. But the time for those almost free-for-all efforts may be coming to a close.
2. Google Cloud might be ready to shift more responsibility to its managed service providers and other channel partners. That saves it some money, in the form of fewer people to fund. However, that does put more burden on partners to handle customer care and technical support. Sometimes that’s a plus, sometimes it’s not.
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure on Tuesday launched 11 — count ‘em, 11 — new capabilities. The provider says those will enable users to run workloads faster and more securely at less cost (sort of contrary to what’s happening over at Google Cloud).
There’s a lot of information around the new services — find the full details here. As an overview, though, look for new capabilities around containers, AMD, Oracle Cloud VMware Solution on AMD, content delivery, firewalls, web application acceleration, network visualization, vTAP and more.
“The promise of the cloud has always been paying for only what you need, but customers continue to overprovision due to rigid configuration options in most cloud platforms,” said Dave McCarthy, research vice president, cloud and edge infrastructure services, at IDC. “OCI has made significant strides to address this problem by introducing new flexible compute, storage and network infrastructure services over the last year. OCI customers can reduce costs by more accurately matching consumption to demand.”
OCI plans to have the new services and capabilities available this year.
Speaking of AMD, independent cloud provider Vultr (which will take part in this session at the upcoming Channel Partners Conference & Expo), has introduced its new Optimized Cloud Compute line.
For the first time ever, Vultr is using AMD technology to power the new services. The company says that, due to “exceptional performance,” “these VMs are now are default and recommended option for most users.”
The Optimized Cloud Compute portfolio contains three product lines:
• Optimized Cloud Compute — Built for high-traffic websites, transcoding, CI/CD and more.
• Cloud Compute — Designed for “bursty” applications such as gaming servers, VPNs and low-traffic websites.
• Bare Metal — For intense cloud workloads.
Vultr ranks among the small group of alternative cloud providers attracting managed services and other channel partners looking for options to the hyperscalers. The issue isn’t so much about replacing the AWS’s and Azures of the world — that’s not really realistic. It’s more about having better failover strategies and more optimal locations for specific workloads. Channel Partners Conference & Expo attendees are going to learn a lot more about this on April 11.
Speaking of AMD, independent cloud provider Vultr (which will take part in this session at the upcoming Channel Partners Conference & Expo), has introduced its new Optimized Cloud Compute line.
For the first time ever, Vultr is using AMD technology to power the new services. The company says that, due to “exceptional performance,” “these VMs are now are default and recommended option for most users.”
The Optimized Cloud Compute portfolio contains three product lines:
• Optimized Cloud Compute — Built for high-traffic websites, transcoding, CI/CD and more.
• Cloud Compute — Designed for “bursty” applications such as gaming servers, VPNs and low-traffic websites.
• Bare Metal — For intense cloud workloads.
Vultr ranks among the small group of alternative cloud providers attracting managed services and other channel partners looking for options to the hyperscalers. The issue isn’t so much about replacing the AWS’s and Azures of the world — that’s not really realistic. It’s more about having better failover strategies and more optimal locations for specific workloads. Channel Partners Conference & Expo attendees are going to learn a lot more about this on April 11.
For those keeping track, Amazon Web Services has signed yet another of its strategic collaboration agreements. This time, it’s an expanded deal between AWS and MongoDB. The two companies have worked together for more than a decade. Now, AWS and MongoDB are doing a whole lot more.
“Though details of the agreement are confidential, the results will not be: Customers stand to benefit from deeper, broader technical integrations, improvements in migrating workloads from legacy data infrastructure to modern MongoDB Atlas and more. For those of us who have worked to grow this partnership, it’s exciting (and rewarding!) to see the scope of the work envisioned by MongoDB and AWS, together.”
That’s the word from MongoDB’s Matt Asay and Abhinav Mehla in a March 15 blog.
We’ve got the details of the expanded partnership between AWS and MongoDB in the slideshow above. You’ll also read about some price increases at Google Cloud, as well as rumored “we didn’t know we were laid off” happenings at the world’s third-largest public cloud provider. Finally, look for some hot-off-the-presses news from Oracle Cloud and indie cloud provider Vultr.
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