<story><title>It is hard to recommend Google Cloud</title><url>https://ashishb.net/programming/google-cloud/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jodiug</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m surprised to find all comments so strongly against Google. I do not like their customer support nor their surprise product closure acts... but I do find their cloud interface easy to use, pricing is solid, and (K8s&amp;#x2F;Cloud Run) I have barely been affected by any significant outage in some 8 years of use.&lt;p&gt;Contrast to Azure who despite their SLA had significant outages every few months that were very noticeable, sometimes even requiring us setting up an entire new K8s project from scratch. AWS is better in terms of reliability. Their UX is not great though, I often feel like I&amp;#x27;m a wizard waving my wand with permissions and connecting things like audit trails. Many actions are a bit delayed in their effect. I&amp;#x27;ve also had to contact support at times to raise arbitrary limits in the platform.&lt;p&gt;In balance I would recommend GCP. Their product closures have not affected me enough to scare me away. I guess experiences vary depending on which product we are using.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zacmps</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s been brought up elsewhere in the thread but GCP deleting an entire tenant&amp;#x27;s account rules them out entirely from any serious business IMO.</text></comment>
<story><title>It is hard to recommend Google Cloud</title><url>https://ashishb.net/programming/google-cloud/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jodiug</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m surprised to find all comments so strongly against Google. I do not like their customer support nor their surprise product closure acts... but I do find their cloud interface easy to use, pricing is solid, and (K8s&amp;#x2F;Cloud Run) I have barely been affected by any significant outage in some 8 years of use.&lt;p&gt;Contrast to Azure who despite their SLA had significant outages every few months that were very noticeable, sometimes even requiring us setting up an entire new K8s project from scratch. AWS is better in terms of reliability. Their UX is not great though, I often feel like I&amp;#x27;m a wizard waving my wand with permissions and connecting things like audit trails. Many actions are a bit delayed in their effect. I&amp;#x27;ve also had to contact support at times to raise arbitrary limits in the platform.&lt;p&gt;In balance I would recommend GCP. Their product closures have not affected me enough to scare me away. I guess experiences vary depending on which product we are using.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sunaookami</author><text>You can&amp;#x27;t even set spending limits on Google Cloud and have to use some obscure script that deactivates billing if you want to imitate it. The whole product is incredibly buggy and complicated.</text></comment>