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GCP is the ugly stepchild of Google. They prioritize their own infra which unlike Aws doesn’t even run on gcp! It’s a joke. They don’t dogfood anything. All Google infra runs on separate systems (both) or dedicated deployment like their own spanner clusters. Google employees look down on gcp employees like second class citizens

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> They prioritize their own infra which unlike Aws doesn’t even run on gcp!

I don't believe that to be the case, last I heard a year or two back the vast majority of it -does- run on a google GCP tenant account and what didn't was largely at least in the process of migration planning.

(my source here is "pillow talk with a senior GCP engineer" and I don't believe she had any reason to lie to me)

That’s not been my experience having done consulting for Google. They may have some stuff on gcp but they don’t dog food much like Aws does (literally running Amazon on top of vanilla dynamo and kinesis). Google has a lot of custom infra

Sorry, but that's not true.

I wish it was. But running anything that bridges google3 and GCP is a nightmare. Outside of acquisitions and OSSish stuff like chrome, it's really rare to see GCP used. Oddly enough their corp eng team does quite a bit with making GCP accessible to the rest of the company.

Source: former Google SRE who actually worked on one of those teams.

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