Oh, Amazon.
Last week at re:Invent, the annual conference for market-leading public cloud provider Amazon Web Services, vice president of infrastructure Jerry Hunter included a photo in his presentation of networking hardware from a Google data center.
The Google Cloud Platform directly competes with Amazon Web Services. So this is either the result of some poor slide deck prep on the part of AWS or AWS’ strange attempt to promote itself using information from a competitor.
Above: Jerry Hunter showing off Google networking infrastructure during a talk about Amazon Web Services’ infrastructure at the 2015 AWS re:invent conference in Las Vegas on Oct. 7.
Google has lately been showing off its networking equipment. The photo of Google’s “Jupiter” switch fabric that showed up in Hunter’s talk was first shared publicly at the Open Networking Summit in June 2015, when Google technical lead for networking Amin Vahdat gave a talk.
Above: Amin Vahdat, a Google Fellow and Google’s technical lead for networking, talks about Google’s “Jupiter” networking block at the Open Networking Summit in Santa Clara, Calif., in June 2015.
Hunter’s use of the image came during his presentation entitled “Innovation at Scale” on Oct. 7. Urs Hölzle, senior vice president for technical infrastructure at Google, published a Google+ post about the incident yesterday, citing Timothy Prickett Morgan of The Platform for making the discovery. Of course, Hölzle took this as an opportunity to talk up Google:
One more reason to be certain that +Google Cloud Platform has the world’s best infrastructure: while bragging about their network, a competitor shows images of Google’s network. … Thanks for the acknowledgment, +Amazon Web Services! But next time please show our logo on the slide :-)
Amazon has not yet posted a video of the session. An Amazon spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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