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GCP has the worst UI, except for all the others

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The last time I tried Google Cloud was to test some Serverless code, this was the outcome:

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Just spent 2 hours trying to make some basic Google Cloud Services examples of Serverless to work, directly from the Serverless page to no avail. GCS was returning all kind of weird errors, including HTTP 500 ...

After that decided to move to use the AWS examples, and the first one I tried worked like a charm! Google has a long way to go to be at the level of AWS, right now the infrastructure seems crappy, if you cannot even run the most simple examples of a simple HTTP serverless function.

EDIT: Also, I would never use Google Cloud, fearing that if for some reason they decide to "block" my account, I would have no recourse. Their support is terrible as well.

Weird, I use GCP (GCS extensively) pretty much exclusively for numerous different clients and can recall having 0 issues. I had to use AWS EKS recently and found the UX to be quite sub-par in the console compared to GCP. EKS is a nightmare compared to GKE as well.

Yes. EKS is a horrible piece of crap. I've tried it and ended up using ECS.

Agreed... GCP isn't perfect by any means, but I find it much better than AWS, and miles better than Azure.

Aws ui is old school and has clunky ux but is very snappy even on underpowered hw. GCP is a bloated mess. Takes 30-60s to load every page on my personal mac air with a 1gpbs link. And doesn’t work well in safari

It's fixed now, but for a while I had to open the gcp pubsub part of the console in chrome rather than Firefox because it would just completely fail to load.

The cynical part of me was thinking that this is a good way to increase browser market share, but more likely an honest mistake.

Overall I find the gcp console and gcloud cli very user-friendly compared to aws though

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