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GCP is behind. They're are behind in niche services to be fair but behind nonetheless. Nothing that prevents building similar services, but coming from AWS, I routinely feel frustrated by lack of finesse and comparable offerings. IMO, GCP's greatest benefits over AWS are:

* BigQuery

* Tighter k8s integration with GKE

* Single message service (PubSub)

Unless BigQuery is your first class citizen, I would avoid GCP.

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Google also has a trust problem. As in they lose interest in things quickly.

I would only consider them if I need a massive scale of something they are cheaper on, that can quickly be migrated elsewhere.

This is such an overblown talking point.

If you sign a service contract with Google (which you will if you are spending any amount of serious money), then you will have a precisely defined guarantee that they will continue operating GCloud.

I doubt anyone’s service contract stipulates that Google will continue to invest heavily to keep feature parity with AWS and Azure for the next 20 years

Bingo. I’ve had to move a companies entire platform multiple times because of similar issues. I want boring on infrastructure.

AWS has a trust problem - they have no qualms about observing that your product is valuable, cloning it, and leaving their 'customer' in the dust.

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