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Or use Google Cloud, which has 90% good parts. Documentation can be a bit pain, but the services themselves are rocksolid. There are no 3/4 queuing services, just one. GKE rocks! Cloud Console is a breath of fresher, compared to AWS. Cloud Shell makes it easy to bypass firewalls for logging into instances and no messing with public keys. It's all managed for you. Use firebase if you are looking specifically for Web and Mobile Apps. Scaling to millions of users or Petabytes of data is no big deal and you don't have to rearchitect everytime your customer base grows by 10x.

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I keep reading that Google Cloud is excellent. It is definitely enticing.

That being said, for me, the fact that it's Google is a big detractor. Non existent support, the worst documentation last I checked, and I read a "my account was closed unexpectedly" story every now and then.

Then there's the privacy angle, but the alternative companies are hardly bastions of user privacy themselves.

I worry that I will overcome my fears and start using it one day, only to years later try to undo that decision and wean off it like with Android, Search, Chrome, and (not yet) Gmail/GSuite.

Google's intro/free stuff is by far the best of the lot so def give it a try. e.g. Free VM 24/7 forever.

>Then there's the privacy angle

Don't think that's a big issue at dev level. They're interest in billions of users not tracking thousands of esoteric devs doing work stuff that has limited ad resale value.

>the worst documentation last I checked

Seemed fine to me. Probably better than azure

The google services are just way easier to use but once you’ve got expert level proficiency at AWS it’s tough to let go.

I have to use both. I find google easier to do simple things.. but I find it lacks some of the flexibility AWS has for less simple things.

Well, that and Google's managed k8s solution was down for multiple days awhile back when I was doing a comparison. Another reason I use EKS atm.... despite I think GKE is a bit better.

I don't know when this happened. Give GKE a try, it's really amazing. Blows EKS out of water. As per the flexibility is concerned, once you learn how to use Google Services, you can get the flexibility with simplicity. AWS services are too complex and even things like billing require a PhD degree in finance to optimize for anything non-trivial.

The lock-in with not just all your infrastructure with one provider but also all the skills and proficiencies with one provider's stack is a high risk that I ranted about recently: https://blog.flurdy.com/2019/06/all-eggs-in-one-cloud-basket...

Having your teams doing little POCs with other providers will ease your project/company cloud bus-factor significantly.

Can you provide examples, in what way they are easier

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