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Came here just to reiterate this. Google Cloud Load balancers don't need warming, manual creation of support tickets, etc.

Also, networking on GCP is vastly superior to AWS. The VPC is setup with sane defaults and VM instances can communicate privately to other VM instances in any zone or region without needing complicated constructs such as VPN's or NAT instances.

Lastly, Google Cloud is generally cheaper (sustained use-discounts), higher performance, and takes all the lessons learned from AWS and applies them.

The one knock I have on GCP is billing. It is incredibly obtuse. Even the monthly billing invoices I still have a hard time digesting (especially if you have multiple projects under a single billing account).

> The one knock I have on GCP is billing. It is incredibly obtuse.

Really? We've found it to be much easier. The billing section has up-to-date current breakouts and a simple list of transactions for each billing account. There are budget alerts and the best part is the easy export into bigquery which then gives you SQL access for all of it. Add in datastudio and you have BI style analysis and visualizations too. Better than anything else the other clouds have.

Video from GCP Next: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qL8kvTb4RbU

Any AWS users have a better experience with their newer "ALB" load balancer? It doesn't specifically call out any performance benefits over the legacy "ELB", but since it's much newer, I'm curious if it happens to do better.

Yes. Although Administration / UI is slightly more confusing. We had unique performance issues with the ELB offering that couldn't be fixed because it was the way it was designed. With ALB, that performance issue no longer existed.

ALB may be more complicated, but it's also more flexible, and I've especially come to appreciate that in the past couple of days.

By the way, it looks like ALB might be based on nginx, based on the error pages. I wonder if classic ELB is based on HAProxy.

This... To get even the invoices of Google apps ( suite) I have to download 12* 3€

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