[anthony_barker]

I have done projects on all except Azure (mostly due to a Microsoft aversion). I hate their special names for everything. Reminds me of Starbucks.

Here is my take: GCP tools are better PubSub, CloudSQL. However they don't support email and their docs are not as up to date and helpful as AWS.

I think the main reason to select the big three is a) security (network, instance, user management) b) you don't get fired for selecting the big guys c) some specialized tools (SES, s3, CDNs, github)

I always feel that the time you invest to learn all the details of AWS you could have invested into Ansible, Docker, Wireguard, Iptables, zfs and linux, and deploy a much more cost effective solution on Heztner, (which I prefer over upcloud, do, vultr). But you need to know what you are doing. Many companies prefer to trust a vendor instead of their employees.