[lnkmails]

Your reasoning and the conclusion resonates a lot with my own findings for a project that we tried to bootstrap. GCP's GKE and Istio integration are becoming more compelling to consider them for containerized workloads. EKS isn't quite there. One of the things we are struggling with is finding a qualified partner who can help us build our new project on GCP. We don't have a mature infrastructure team and while we try to bootstrap one, we would like to rely on partners to help us move the needle. Even partners in GCP premier list don't have case studies of migrating monoliths to GCP. Most of them talk about GSuite migration which isn't quite the same. AWS wins this battle. They have far more mature partners with better track record and thought leadership. I wonder if you see this the same way. Maybe partnership is not crucial for you? Some insights from the community would help.

[manigandham]

Yes. AWS biggest advantage now is the giant marketplace of vendors and partners so you can get help and managed services for just about anything.

In my experience, most startups just want managed options they can run themselves rather than engaging partners but if that's what you need then AWS will have more companies to offer, although GCP does have qualified partners. I recommend contacting one of the GCP developer advocates either in this thread or on twitter for help, or email me separately and I'll put you in touch.

Also I havent worked with them but https://shinesolutions.com/ has put out plenty of articles and case studies that seems to show they're pretty capable, that might work for you.

[vira28]

Just curious, Which support tier you are using from GCP?

For an early stage startup/Indie developer, GCP support model is not appeasing. $100 Per user for development role is unacceptable. (at least to us, the stage where we are now)

[manigandham]

We use the production roles but you don't have to signup every single person, just those who file tickets and interact with support.

If you're very early then you can also try the older support pricing: https://cloud.google.com/support/premium/

If that's still too expensive then you can probably rely on the free support and forums until you have more spend and revenue.

[boulos]

Depending where you're based, there are some very good partners that can help here. It really depends on what level of cooperation you're looking for from "here, you do it" to "just give us guidance along the way".

https://cloud.google.com/solutions/migration-center/ is a reasonable jumping off point. Sorry if that didn't come up more clearly.

[lnkmails]

We have talked to Velostrata and some other GCP partners. It's hard to assess their usefulness. Unfortunately, they don't have much of open source credibility. Picking by case studies seems like picking out a car by reading advertising material.