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This makes me think Amazon it starting to worry a bit more about Google Cloud. Have they been gaining a lot on Amazon recently?

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I would never, ever, ever use Google Cloud for anything other than education (e.g. students working on the free tiers). Google's general culture is to randomly kill partners' businesses with automated algorithms, and then not do anything about it unless it explodes on social media.

That includes multi-million dollar partners sometimes.

I'd work for Google, but I wouldn't use their systems outside of Google. I wouldn't work for Amazon, but I definitely use AWS.

After working for Google for short duration, i second this opinion.

The engineers simply want to do cool complicated things. They dont give a damn about enterprise world, requirements, and deadlines.

I have heard that AWS's Kubernetes offering (EKS) is plagued with bugs and scaling challenges, while Google's is top tier.

Could you go into more detail or provide any resources/blogs on this? We're lightweight users of EKS and I'm interested in avoiding the issues you mentioned.

A lot of what I know is second hand, but I have personally had trouble scaling out a large cluster. AWS's (non-public) limits (# of nodes, API rate limits etc.) fall WAY short of what Kubernetes can support. There is also a lot of configuration and manual work involved to setup and manage the cluster compared to GKE or Azure which are both close to one-click.

I feel the same way. I know that GCP has lured me away from AWS, though I would like to say that has been due to a more simple model for managing resources and exposing documentation, and not much marketing.

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