[psanford]

Why do people trust AWS in a way that they don't trust GCP? Its because of things like this.

One of the most important things about building on top of a cloud platform is that the platform needs to not move out from under you! That means, don't turn off features and services I'm depending on. It also means don't completely change the pricing model after I've built a business around the old model. AWS knows this and has a 15 year history of giving customers this stability.

GCP on the other hand has a track record of changing pricing models and turning off services. It has gotten to the point where I am simply not comfortable using GCP to build on, even if their solution is technically superior to AWS. I just can't trust that they won't pull the rug out from under me again.

GCP has a major problem with their reputation, and it doesn't seem like they are even aware of it.

[metadat]

I know they're aware of it, Cloud is the laughing stock of the rest of Google engineering. Thomas Kurian is also good at doing things a certain particular way: his way.

Unfortunately, his way is fucked up, which means stupid stuff like this will just keep happening ad nauseum until something big changes.

[Salgat]

To add to that, AWS will gladly give you as much human support as you want. Google support (or lack of) scares the shit out of me.