Yes the title is click baity to the extreme. The author hasn't used GCE extensively (has anyone?), so recommending GCE is disingenuous. Despite that, I found t

Yes the title is click baity to the extreme. The author hasn't used GCE extensively (has anyone?), so recommending GCE is disingenuous. Despite that, I found the article to be a good summary of some of AWS's worse sore points. EBS performance really is a dog. He failed to mention c3 instance types though, which also have locally attached SSDs.