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>What has gone wrong with GCP? It was trying to be AWS. Too complex and feature-rich instead of simple and feature-complete.

Yeah no. GCP is a direct competitor to AWS, so of course Google needs (at least partly) to match Amazon's product lineup. The argument of this post boils down to "GCP should be like DO", i.e. less services and a slicker UI, but Google won't win over AWS customers with that.

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Indeed. Further to that, there are already a lot of DO-like hosting platforms out there but fewer AWS-like solutions targeting enterprise. So why would Google target a crowded market when they have the resources to target enterprise.

Also to offer my own anecdotal experiences using DO. I find it highly inflexible when I need to do anything more granular. Sure it's easy for deploying a standard build, but anything that falls slightly outside of DO's remit quickly becomes more trouble than it's worth. Where as AWS (and similar) might intimidate new comers with it's scale and complexity but that flexibility can also be a godsend.

I wasn't focusing on product lineup. GCP is clearly superior to DO and AWS even more. I was just offering an alternative to someone primarily using compute. It seems AWS LightSail understood this too: https://amazonlightsail.com/

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