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ricwyesterday at 8:41 PM6 repliesview on HN

Unsure how true that is. Google cloud is tiny compared to aws for a reason.

It matters. People will switch if you piss them off.


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strictneinyesterday at 9:02 PM

Google's lack of customer service isn't new or limited to GCP. They also don't provide any human help if you're an advertiser with them unless you spend a crazy amount of money. Twenty years ago I used to spend upwards of $20-30k a month with them and I couldn't get a single reply to any inquiry I ever sent.

If you spend $XXX million / year with them on GCP they will, however, assign a person to be your main point of contact.

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StableAlkyneyesterday at 9:16 PM

Personally, I don't use GCP because of their history of getting bored with their products and abandoning them.

It's nice, maybe I would use it for a personal project, but I go out of my way to discourage my engineering teams from using it.

blacksmith_tbyesterday at 11:47 PM

Is that reason customer service? My only experiences with AWS along those lines have not been great...

user34283yesterday at 9:20 PM

It helps if you have a monopoly on app distribution for half of all phones, or video streaming.

Then you can afford zero support and still take 15-30%.

smt88yesterday at 9:16 PM

Google support is abysmal for all of their profitable businesses too, like Ads and YouTube.

PunchyHamsteryesterday at 8:49 PM

Mostly coz of everything else about GCP