| I feel like there's a strong anti-marketing. I personally never experienced any services terminated, and it sounds unplausible that anyone would terminate a service that brings money. Especially major ones like GCS or GCE. I can only remember AppEngine's TaskManager (wasn't terminated, but refactored into Cloud Tasks, to be not AppEngine-specific). They probably terminate only services that no one pays for anyway. Maybe you've used Alpha-Beta features that were supposed to be changed/killed later? > I've also read in the past their service and sales was diabolical. Quite the opposite: Microsoft sales are diabolical. AWS also actively poaches all around the valley. I'd say Google is lacking behind mostly on that kind of marketing/sales. Market share is a tricky thing: AWS opened up Cloud first, so it's not surprising to be #1. Microsoft had very strong presence in enterprises and government, so it was easy for them to onboard existing customers. Also, Microsoft counted Azure under "Web Services" category (together with online Outlook or Office 360), and it's not clear what share of that was Azure. > in my region people go azure or aws I feel for them as I think they fell into marketing charms. Because, technically, Azure is the worst, I'd never choose it. AWS is a strong choice (nobody got fired for choosing AWS). |
Personally and professionally I've never used Azure myself. But I would likely choose Azure over GCP if I had to make a choice between the two. But maybe it's worth reevaluating.
My impressions are purely based on reading articles, news, market saturation data points and talking with people. I really have no intermit experience with GCP in the last 7 years.