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vrosastoday at 4:35 PM4 repliesview on HN

I feel like I'm the only person on HN that doesn't have any major (or cliche) problems with GCP, even after using it for a decade at this point. Like it's not perfect and I've hit weird roadblocks along the way but I've dabbled AWS and I currently use Azure at work and those are hilariously bad in their own ways, people just seem to kind of be used to it?


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icedchaitoday at 6:09 PM

I find GCP's developer experience to be superior to AWS. Maybe it's just me, but I found Cloud Run to be super simple to use compared to ECS/Fargate. The "gcloud" command structure also makes more sense to me.

disgruntledphd2today at 7:47 PM

I haven't used much GCP, I'm just being snarky.

antonvstoday at 5:18 PM

I like GCP as well, having previously used AWS for many years.

The biggest issue is that it's taken Google a long time to figure out what enterprise security is - it's not something what was in their DNA - and the product shows it. They're too focused on weird fancy half-assed "beyond" solutions to properly implement the basics. They dangle clever federated etc. solutions that only work in some circumstances so that you're better off just avoiding them, but the more basic alternatives are limited in their own way because they focus too much on the fancier solutions.