# Google Cloud Platform

12 Hacker News commenters recommended Google Cloud Platform and 27 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 7 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Google's cloud platform, recommended for its broad managed services, enterprise and compliance support, and clean interface. Main caveat: reliability problems and outages, plus fewer features than AWS.

## What people warn about

- Frequent outages and reliability problems (3 comments): "I've always moved companies to away from using GCP or Azure because of their reliability problems." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47594306)) "during the GCP outage, my service was running fine, but other similar services were having trouble" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45917952)) "AWS/GCP/Azure outages are getting more frequent and it seems like they don't even care." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46044517))
- Expensive, profit-driven pricing (3 comments): "AWS and GCP ripping off and stealing most of the revenue from Redis and Elasticsearch" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47605725)) "has led to billions of dollars in unnecessary revenue for those companies" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47731652)) "AWS, GCP are still more expensive because they are just that greedy." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48553746))
- Not open source (2 comments): "Not an ounce of AWS or GCP is open source, yet they'll happily spin up a managed version of your thing" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48031782)) "AWS and GCP are not at all open source themselves" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48892368))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Amazon Web Services (AWS)](https://hackerapproved.com/p/amazon-web-services.md): 248 recommend
- [Google Cloud](https://hackerapproved.com/p/google-cloud-platform.md): 161 recommend
- [Microsoft Azure](https://hackerapproved.com/p/microsoft-azure.md): 153 recommend
- [Scaleway](https://hackerapproved.com/p/scaleway.md): 70 recommend
- [Oracle Cloud Free Tier](https://hackerapproved.com/p/oracle-cloud.md): 70 recommend

## Where to get it

- [Visit the official site](https://cloud.google.com/)

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Google Cloud Platform", https://hackerapproved.com/p/gcp/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).