After I graduated in December, I was hired as a consultant for the company I was interning with on and off the past couple years. I was tasked with automating a

After I graduated in December, I was hired as a consultant for the company I was interning with on and off the past couple years. I was tasked with automating and migrating as much of our workflow as possible onto a hosted solution. After trying out AWS and GCP, we settled on GCP for a few reasons in addition to what benthehenten outlined. - Development experience is great, docs are on point. - BigQuery is fantastic. It let me seamlessly hand off an interface to a full time employee that had experience with SQL without the overhead of them having to learn a whole lot more. - Custom VM's provide us with the flexibility to get exactly what we need to run our workloads, no more, no less. - TPU's though not generally available at the time, were something we knew we'd want to take advantage of in the future. Because we're a TensorFlow shop, it just made sense.