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> GCP has a smaller number of services but they tend to be very well designed with excellent taste.

I would have said the same before using GCP. At first everything goes super smoothly and the experience is definitely better than AWS. Then you start seeing undocumented behaviour again and again. In comparison, it is much rarer to get any undocumented behavior in AWS.

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Fully agree with this. I have used GKE at scale as an example. It starts to break down significantly once your cluster reaches a couple hundred nodes. Only way to solve it is to have support resize your controller nodes manually. And as support for anything google is horrible, that task takes multiple hours.

Not my experience. They tend to work well. The problems comes when you want to do something very slightly unusual.

> The problems comes when you want to do something very slightly unusual.

That's exactly what I said. Main services are more or less stable, but there are edge cases in smaller services if you want to do something unusual.

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