Could someone explain what would make the Google cloud platform a better deploy target for my elixir application than any other?
The biggest thing that this does is give you first class access to the ecosystem APIs and with native setups for AppEngine (Heroku-ish), Compute Engine (do it yourself on a VM) and a provider in Gigalixir which runs on GCP that gives a Heroku-like experience but is tailored specifically to everything Elixir needs (hot loading, clustering out of the box, etc).
Between those two things, GCP is pretty strong.
I was reading up on Gigalixir thanks to this thread, is it basically a more "batteries included" version of AppEngine specifically targetted for Elixir?
It’s just nice to see a hosting option that tailors itself to the more unique needs of the BEAM when the rest of the industry is focusing on stateless containers.