> This point is oddly weak in comparison to the others.

Agreed - it was senseless. SNS/SQS aren't particularly complex and they scale like crazy. Kinesis is something else entirely (N-hour record retention w/arbitrary consumers and offsets) and doesn't even belong in the comparison.

> ugh. Perfectly fine article now just reeks of google "fanboy-ism".

Do Google's core products actually run on GCP these days? I was under the impression they do not.