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You should take another look, as we literally rewrote most of the documentation in the last few weeks.

The google cloud documentation is definitely sub-par. I tried to build a simple Go app trying to use the pubsub api and eventually gave up. None of the documentation provided a full working example and any example you can find references an old version of the api. And this was with Go!

What's missing from this fluff piece is the top 5 reasons why its better than AWS.

> What's missing from this fluff piece is the top 5 reasons why its better than AWS.

AWS and AppEngine aren't even the same kind of thing. AWS is a high-level collection of services (Google's equivalent is Google Cloud Platform.)

AppEngine is a PaaS offering within Google Cloud Platform. And, AFAIK, its one piece of GCP that AWS doesn't have a direct competitor to. (Lambda is, I think, the closest thing.)

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