| > Whatever GCP has is rock-solid and often superior to AWS. A number of global outages in various network-related APIs or features on GCP in the past year says otherwise. I don't think there has been any global or even multi-region outage at AWS in many many years, the biggest recent outage for S3 in one region (us-east-1) impacted the internet more than any of the (~3) global outages at GCP and some other recent ones at Azure. > For example: when AWS encounters non-catastrophic issues with their hypervisor, you are on the hook for moving the instances away (meaning stop-start, or termination and relaunch for instance store). Apparently this is only for older instance types. > GCP will transparently migrate the VM while it is running for you. You never see it, you customers don't either. If you never see it from GCP, how do you know AWS doesn't do it for more recent instance types? > Same for networking: if you use their "premium" network, you can have anycast IPs to the closest POP, which will route traffic on Google's Network, not the open internet. There may be good reasons for this ... |