Cloud Functions, Cloud Tasks and Cloud SQL Postgres are fantastic too. Very low cost that scales with you and essentially zero lockin.
https://status.cloud.google.com/incidents/fmEL9i2fArADKawkZA...
"Customers experienced downtime on Tuesday, 19 July 2022 starting at 09:25 US/Pacific. 36% of zonal (non-HA) instances in europe-west2-a were affected. Additionally, 31% of regional (HA) instances whose primaries were located in europe-west2-a experienced extended downtime because they were unable to successfully fail over to another zone. Finally, customers experienced some failures during the incident for backup, instance creation, update, delete, restart, export, and Database Migration Service operations. The total impact duration was 17 hours, 30 minutes."
(This hit us hard.)
Last I checked, the lifetime of the function was bound to the lifetime of the request. So you have to fully flush your logs to their log ingress service before you respond to a request, otherwise GCP will suspend the function and eat your logs.
Originally, this resulted in me having - to my surprise - very few logs coming from my functions.
Once I discovered what was going on, it resulted in me having to increase the latency of responding to the request while I waited for logging to flush to GCP's log ingress service.
I did actually have an issue where it was logging two blank lines, which was annoying. It definitely wasn't coming from my code and it got fixed at one point, then reappeared later on. I gave up trying to resolve it.
That said, their logging system is fantastic. I found it really easy to deal with.
Although it works and is solid, I wouldn’t say it’s fantastic. My impression is that Google makes limited investment in it to steer customers towards their own services such as Cloud Spanner.
- Major versions are 6 months late - Small instances are horribly slow - Integration with other services is poor (e.g. the Cloud Run integration doesn’t work with a database private IP, so you have to fallback to configuring a VPC and connecting the standard way) - IAM authentication, although great when it works, is complicated and poorly documented - The UI has very few features, for example it isn’t possible to query the database from it - Although I’ve never seen any provider have it, automatic upgrades between major versions would have been nice.