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Thanks for clarifying.. it sounds thoroughly tragic, and the kind of endemic overengineering that made so many people (myself included) run screaming from the original App Engine over the years. I guess GCP really turned a page in Google culture and learned to finally listen to customers

AWS> we put your code in a container, like everyone else puts your code in a container. We bikeshedded the Linux distro a bit, so you might need to recompile

Customer> OK. Fine

GCP> our web scale open source userland kernel hypervisor written in Go hosts your code in a Linux-but-not-quite-Linux microservice

Customer> Why does <X> system call return a strange error code?

GCP> You're too dumb to understand. Trust us

Customer> oh, I think I understand well enough. Calls back Azure sales rep