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by cassianoleal 2362 days ago
Am using it at current client. It's very good. GKE is absolutely brilliant, and some of the other stuff is also great.

On the other hand, some stuff is not quite there yet. The metadata server to handle instance/pod IAM (i.e. Workload Identity) is wobbly at best. To be fair, it's in beta - but then most of their offerings seem to be - which then means you can't rely on it for business-critical applications since it may wobble at the wrong time and there's no SLA.

This is just one example off the top of my head - I'm on holiday and not making massive mental effort to remember work. :)

AWS is still my preferred cloud provider. Their APIs can be daunting at times and you have to build off many lower level concepts until you get something working but when you do it tends to be rock solid - and under your control. I prefer their approach of giving you the best lowest level services to build on, and then building on top of those themselves for those who want more abstraction than the Google way of "we're building something you'll want to use - we'll tell you when it's available but it will probably be another year or two until it's GA and covered by any SLA."