Looking for a k8s for a hybrid deployment, the contrast was blatant: mention it to a Red Hat sales person and you have people showing up the next week to pitch OpenShift. AWS has a deep story here, same deal. A friend stopped begging the Google rep to pitch Anthos because it was kind of obvious how it'd go if you actually needed support.

This has been my experience. I've dealt with all of the big three cloud providers, and as a big customer. Azure is incompetence, AWS is largely capable and professional (so long as you're big enough to register on their radar), and GCP is just dripping arrogance. GCP is a better platform than Azure, but I would never choose it because dealing with Google reps is a never ending stream of condescension.

Dodged a bullet there, I'd say. You can safely assume that google will EOL anything in GCP that you might actually start relying on for business function.

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