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I had the misfortune of having to use Azure back in 2018 and was appalled at the lack of quality, slowness. I was in GitHub forums, helping other customers suffering from lack of basic functionality, incredible prices with abysmal performance. This article explains a lot honestly.

Google’s Cloud feels like the best engineered one, though lack of proper human support is worrying there compared to AWS.

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I thought that about GCP until I used it more seriously and kept running into issues where they didn’t have some feature AWS had had for ages, and our Google engineers kept saying the answer was to run your own service in Kubernetes rather than use a platform service which did not give me confidence that they understood what the business proposition was.

GCP's support is abysmal. Our assigned customer support agent has changed 3 times in as many months. it's really a dice roll if our quota increase requests are even acknowledged or we can get clarification on undocumented system limitations.

Unless you work in Alphabet's marketing department, then no GCP isn't the best one. The most reliable cloud has always been AWS by a wide margin. The exec in charge of GCP has had to apologize in public on multiple occasions for GCP's reliability problems. Sounds like they have fixed them by now (years later) but that doesn't make up the disaster that was BigQuery.

Also, GCP is more focused on smaller customers so perhaps that's the part that works for you. AWS can be a bit daunting. But AWS actually versions their APIs and publishes roadmaps and timelines for when APIs get added and retired and what you should use instead. GCP will just cancel things on short notice with no replacement.

I still remember the day the disks dissappeared on the prod db running on gcp.

GCP's support sucks compared the quality on AWS. On everything else I find GCP very pleasant.

> Google’s Cloud feels like the best engineered one, though lack of proper human support is worrying there compared to AWS.

Also the lack of locations in general. GCP's fleet is tiny compared to both AWS and Azure

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