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I also got burned by this. However, I'm going to buck the trend and say something nice about Scaleway: I've been using their managed Kubernetes product, Kapsule

I also got burned by this. However, I'm going to buck the trend and say something nice about Scaleway: I've been using their managed Kubernetes product, Kapsule, for a few months now and I have generally been happy with it. It's pretty cost-effective, it auto-provisions SSD block storage and, so far, it has been reliable. No charges for the management plane at the moment (though like GKE, that could change). For support, they have a Slack channel: if you go in there and speak directly to the engineer who looks after things, you generally get a pretty decent level of service. Of course that's a totally different prospect than Google support, but the pricing is totally different too.

simplecto 7y ago
I will tip my hat to Scaleway as well. I'm in a couple of the product betas and enjoy having access directly with the engineers via slack. I happily host my side projects with them without too many issues. There was a recent outage on their block storage product, and the channels of communication were open and transparent in slack -- which is more than I can say for AWS. I'm now up to 5 small dev servers and running hundreds of thousands of tasks per month across docker, serverless, and linux VMs. +1 happy customer here.