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That said, I'm a GCP certified engineer. I love GCP, but I can see Google losing the cloud war to Microsoft solely in that Microsoft has a more comprehensible offering (UI and libraries/services) and, most importantly, knows how to market its platform.

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AWS is more comprehensive than both by quite a wide margin. MS does indeed have a long history of relying very heavily on marketing. Time will tell if marketing can paper over the large gap in features.

More comprehensive by a wide margin? Can you unpack that? I get the impression that there is no functional equivalent to Google App Engine on the Amazon side. You still have to "reserve" dynos, you still have to define how your app scales. There is no "autoscaling" feature that's like App Engine on the Amazon side. Or at least if it exists, it's not as mature as App Engine.

Is this the certification you are talking about :

https://cloud.google.com/developers/training/exams/

Those are the pre-requisite for the 400-series exams. I had to pass all those just to get into the 400-series classes. Then you have to pass the exams and then do a project for each part of the platform. I did all that.

Could you please link me where I can find more information about the 400-series exams / how to become a certified GCP engineer?

I'm not really sure! I was invited into the program through the partner channel at Google because I was working for a company that had already done a lot of development on the app engine platform. I was one of the early adopters of GAE, as I started using it the first year it came out. One of the apps I co-wrote became a case study Google used.

See this is kind of an example of how Google is awesome at engineering but short on communication. I can't even explain how to get into their fold, so to speak.

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