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To be fair, there are some instances where GC has unique technological advantages compared to VPSes. Their new distributed ACID SQL database comes to mind.

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It's true GC has more of these features but I personally avoid stuff like that because that's serious lock-in.

Google Cloud also has live migration of VMs.

Is that unusual? I just did that with my VMs in the datacenter this morning to add more storage...

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