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so it seems in general you like GCP more than AWS? What is your opinion?

Personally, not professionally, I like GCP more. Feedback cycle is (used to be) faster and it feels (used to feel) less enterprisey. I also liked the idea of a new player on the market, and wanted to make sure I vote for this diversity with dollars.

I think these days GCP and AWS are more or less on par. One thing I learned the hard way: invest time into calculating your expected cloud spend. Your use case, partners you integrate with, your audience. Those impact significantly on cloud pricing.

"used to" - correct. my thoughts exactly 1 year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12235003

Also, some GCP folks are hanging out here and it's nice to have some insights into platform internals.

Yep, pretty regularly I see "Disclaimer: I work for Google Cloud" on HN, with AWS and Azure I see a lot less, no solid metrics here. I also like I can get staff on a Google Groups for many of their products like StackDriver to share feedback and get a PM to respond eventually.

I'm sure there is some internal rule (contract/NDS) at AWS that you are not allowed to talk in any way outside of Amazon about AWS without supervision ;)

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