They have a very long deprecation policy for anything under the actual “Cloud” banner. Their solutions are more technically sound, their API and UX significant

They have a very long deprecation policy for anything under the actual “Cloud” banner. Their solutions are more technically sound, their API and UX significantly more consistent; they make the billing system available through the same interfaces that you use for other data processing on the platform. I wrote a more detailed diatribe on the failings of other providers[0]; but largely the “correctness”, “consistency” are the main reasons. For example their IAM actually works for everything, including GKE pods; and they don’t oversubscribe and try to align VMs to NUMA zones (AWS didn’t do that when I last checked, Azure still doesn’t even try). Also, as a previous customer; I got much better support from Google than I ever got from AWS; but this is a very variable thing depending on your size, where you are and who your TAM is. In the games industry in Sweden its seriously 10/10- I even talked to the hypervisor, storage and SDN/Network teams directly. [0]: https://blog.dijit.sh/gcp-the-only-good-cloud/ https://blog.dijit.sh/gcp-the-only-good-cloud/