Google Cloud

“I’m being billed £0.01/month for something in GCP, I don’t know what even after digging, but I’m too fearful to complain about it”

“it took Google a few tries to get GCP (anyone remember the Search Appliance?) to a solid place”

“getting someone knowledgeable typically means wading through Gemini or talking to (non-technical) support who just read GCP documentation back to you”

“BigCo free tier can be good enough for some cases. I have used GCP and it's been fairly alright.”

“I've never lost a disk on GCP, I've never even had an instance stop once without me telling it to stop.”

“Those companies have tens of thousands of engineers that are much better than the average engineer”

“large companies (and startups) are happy to pay a premium for the support, reputation, and reliability”

“Google still treats its customers like it views them as a steaming, fly-covered pile of crap”

“services like AWS or GCP anything that can be built on top of real life usage in companies will help alot”

“Three fresh deployments looked almost boring. Which is probably exactly what you want from a $512/month VM.”

“GCP is a perfectly good platform technically, it's ahead of AWS in some areas e.g. for k8s it's widely regarded to be the best.”

“GCP was never known for their support and deprecation of services was always a huge risk”

“Beyond the offensive aspect of GCP offering no support if we aren't willing to cough up a non-trivial percentage of our spend”

“They have the most ergonomic cloud of the big three, then absolutely murder it by having this kind of reputation.”

“Google really need to improve their support team. It's strange such a big corp can't even afford to have proper support team.”

“Its made by and for devs unlike the hideous complexity and stupid UI in every layer of AWS.”

“We did a dead launch to 60 million customers (0 to 60 million, no organic growth phase) this way.”

“much better overall CLI experience, leading to a pleasurable experience developing against it”

“If you spend $XXX million / year with them on GCP they will, however, assign a person to be your main point of contact.”

“Google should provide easy tools to actually cap spending, instead of recommending you set quota limits on your APIs”

“never would have happened on GCP, AWS, etc. Because they take billing seriously with multiple contact info”

“I tend to prefer GCP at this point because at least I can programmatically disconnect the billing account”

“it's useless if, like you say, they have shitty rate limiting and measurement so that you're way over the limit before they stop you.”

“AWS runs on AWS (in stark contrast to Azure and GCP which afaik is not what MS and Google use internally)”

“I have a lot of respect for GCP as an engineering artifact, but a significantly less rosy opinion of GCP as an organization”

“coordinating with gcloud account reps to figure out what regions have both enough hyperdisk capacity and compute capacity”

“GCP started late and from a much smaller base, but has been growing consistently faster than both of their competitors.”

“GCP projects are free and provide strong security boundaries, so use them liberally”

“GCP’s architecture seems clearly better to me especially if you are looking to be global.”

“Our GCP account manager was always pretty good at solving these sorts of problems for us at my last company.”

“The big 3 are costing you as if it's still 2009, and they don't change this because people have an irrational attachment to overpaying.”

“Google Cloud Platform is way more convenient to use than AWS, the IAM is way better designed”

“I remember trying out GCP for some simple html or django thing a decade ago and it cost me $30/mo or something and I said nah.”

“no way to change the billing info to our current account and also no way (not by us, not by google support) to figure out what these payments are actually for”

“at work given we were already paying for Google Cloud it was easy enough to connect a GCP account”

“The hyperscalers are good enough, and removing Cloudflare can actually improve your availability”

“For the money you'd spend on AWS/Azure/GCP in a year, in most cases you can get the equivalent refurbished servers you'd need”

“GCP had second mover advantage in that they got to build a lot of constructs to segment identity”

“Their cloud computing business is operated very differently from their consumer businesses.”

“they're creating an animosity that will take ages to erase unless they start putting some minimal amount of money into customer support”