Google Cloud Platform
Ranked 7 of 10 cloud providers by recommenders
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.
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.
39 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 12
- criticize it
- 27
- approval share
- 31%
Recommended in 7 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 12 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 0.4 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, not met.
- Recommended in 7 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
The same three rules apply to every product, and the badge can’t be bought. How the badge works
What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Frequent outages and reliability problems
“I've always moved companies to away from using GCP or Azure because of their reliability problems.”
Comment from 31 Mar 2026 on Hacker News “during the GCP outage, my service was running fine, but other similar services were having trouble”
Comment from 13 Nov 2025 in “We cut our Mongo DB costs by 90% by moving to Hetzner” “AWS/GCP/Azure outages are getting more frequent and it seems like they don't even care.”
Comment from 25 Nov 2025 in “What you can get for the price of a Netflix subscription” Expensive, profit-driven pricing
“AWS and GCP ripping off and stealing most of the revenue from Redis and Elasticsearch”
Comment from 1 Apr 2026 in “EmDash – a spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security” “has led to billions of dollars in unnecessary revenue for those companies”
Comment from 11 Apr 2026 in “Old laptops in a colo as low cost servers” “AWS, GCP are still more expensive because they are just that greedy.”
Comment from 16 Jun 2026 in “Hetzner increased dedicated server prices 3-4x” Not open source
“Not an ounce of AWS or GCP is open source, yet they'll happily spin up a managed version of your thing”
Comment from 6 May 2026 in “Write some software, give it away for free” “AWS and GCP are not at all open source themselves”
Comment from 13 Jul 2026 in “Control the Ideas, Not the Code”
Other cloud providers people recommend
The four most recommended other cloud providers, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amazon Web Services (AWS) | 248 | 498 | 33% | 13 | 5 yrs17 owners | — |
| Google Cloud | 161 | 403 | 29% | 12 | 9 yrs13 owners | — |
| Microsoft Azure | 153 | 608 | 20% | 12 | 8 yrs10 owners | — |
| Scaleway | 70 | 26 | 73% | 12 | — | Approved |
| Google Cloud PlatformThis page | 12 | 27 | 31% | 7 | — | — |
What people said
37 of the 42 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“AWS and GCP both work pretty well if you avoid conditions”
“hyperscalers (AWS/GCP/Azure) $$$”
“Yeah that's true of Azure and of GCP but not AWS.”
“that will be bad in hilariously different ways”
“GCP is probably the best alternative now that they have actual spending caps”
“AWS + GCP free compute offerings are anemic in comparison”
“AWS and GCP are not at all open source themselves”
“AWS, GCP are still more expensive because they are just that greedy.”
“Everyone likes to dunk on AWS and GCP”
“Nowadays you shouldn't use them at all when starting up.”
“GCP manages to somehow be even worse”
“Not an ounce of AWS or GCP is open source, yet they'll happily spin up a managed version of your thing”
“has led to billions of dollars in unnecessary revenue for those companies”
“my bills are now 1/10th of what they were”
“Or GCP for that matter, where I did have your reaction.”
“AWS and GCP ripping off and stealing most of the revenue from Redis and Elasticsearch”
“I've always moved companies to away from using GCP or Azure because of their reliability problems.”
“I'd look real, REAL hard at ditching them as soon as possible afterwards”
“That's the "quality" level of GCP.”
“GCP had second mover advantage in this area”
“Their pricing is simply not competitive.”
“Pub/Sub, Dataflow, CDN, GLB to name a few. I could go on with the list of services currently used by the people that pay to push buttons.”
“GCP has clearly the nicest interface but not every feature that AWS has.”
“cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure) who do compliance and enterprise very well”
“after having used GCP, AWS, and all the orchestration baggage that came with it”
“You can go on AWS or GCP and spin up a VM with 2.2 TB RAM and 288 vCPUs.”
“dang it sure was better than GCP's by comparison”
“on GCP we had to just ban a class of VMs because the packet processing was so bad”
“Serious complicated work shit - GCP”
“I had bad experience with Azure and GCP”
“the GCP and Azure ones are somehow worse”
“AWS/GCP/Azure outages are getting more frequent and it seems like they don't even care.”
“Nobody wants internal apps that auth through AWS or GCP.”
“why it's 10x more complicated than AWS or GCP”
“especially AWS and GCP are massive enablers”
“during the GCP outage, my service was running fine, but other similar services were having trouble”
“the AWS/GCP crazy complex IAM stuff”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.