[karmacondon]

I recently switched to Google Compute Engine. It's cheaper and so far more reliable than AWS. Might be another option for some people here.

[jmiserez]

Even GCE has had (global) outages (interesting post-mortem here [1]), no provider is really safe from these sorts of issues.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11489791

[sidcool]

I am trying to convince people at my work to move to GCP from AWS, but AWS truly has become the Microsoft of Cloud computing. Many people have no idea there are other providers like GCP, Azure, DigitalOcean etc.

[jdc0589]

Azure might be great in a year or so, but it makes me uneasy as is. Some of the services are great, but a lot of them are pretty fragmented. I've had so many instances where our billing/usage data has just "disappeared" for a few days, undocumented changes have been made to the formats of reports/exports/APIs, and official documentation is plain wrong that I just can't recommend Azure to anyone. Not to mention they have the most expensive infrastructure costs out of the major players (even with an EA and decent monetary commitment); their premium for Windows licensing is the lowest by far though (not surprising), so it does end up being a cheaper option for super windows heavy shops though.

[sidcool]

Although I am quite optimistic about Azure, GCP seems like the best bet at the moment. I think of factors like Reliability, performance, availability, cost and longevity.