[boulos]

GKE is miles ahead of ECS, and being based on Kubernetes is huge. We don't really have an equivalent to Lambda (yet?) but classic App Engine isn't actually too far off 'technology-wise' (pay per use, containerized, instant start).

Our lack of IAM is beyond painful. We're sorry. We're fixing it.

PD has had snapshots since Day 1; they're differential, fast and we even encourage people to use them for super-fast "rsync"!

[vyshane]

GKE is why I am personally switching from AWS to GCP. I'm running Kubernetes on AWS at my current gig, but I'd rather not have to build and maintain the cluster myself if I don't have to.

[nulltype]

Also I've found the network load balancer to be amazingly better than ELBs.

[pinkunicorn]

Haven't had a chance to try GKE, but I'll give it a whirl for my upcoming project.

With Lambda, its the whole ecosystem around it which makes it better than App Engine. A file changes in S3 and you want to do something? Lambda, in a few simple lines of code.