GC seems like a bad choice to me. The GC CLI and tools aren’t terrible, but their services in-general have historically been not been friendly to use and their support involves average documentation and humans that talk at users instead of serve them. Google as a company is not what it was, either. A lot of their funding was driven from advertising, and between social media, streaming, and LLMs, that seems like it may be starting to dry up.
Azure? Microsoft as a company is still the choice of most IT departments due to its ubiquitousness and low cost barrier to entry. I personally wouldn’t use Azure if I had the choice, because it’s easy and cheap at the surface, with hell underneath (except for products based on other things, like AD which was just a nice LDAP server, or C# which was modelled after Java).
I’d have gone with AWS. EKS isn’t bad to setup and is solid once it’s up. As far as the health of Amazon itself, China entering the their space hasn’t significantly changed their retail business, though eventually they’ll likely be in price wars.
The greatest risk to any cloud provider I think would be a war that could force national network isolation or government taking over infrastructure. And the grid would go down for a good while and water would stop, so everyone would start migrating, drinking polluted water, then maybe stealing food. At that point, whether or not they chose GC doesn’t matter anymore.
Azure? Microsoft as a company is still the choice of most IT departments due to its ubiquitousness and low cost barrier to entry. I personally wouldn’t use Azure if I had the choice, because it’s easy and cheap at the surface, with hell underneath (except for products based on other things, like AD which was just a nice LDAP server, or C# which was modelled after Java).
I’d have gone with AWS. EKS isn’t bad to setup and is solid once it’s up. As far as the health of Amazon itself, China entering the their space hasn’t significantly changed their retail business, though eventually they’ll likely be in price wars.
The greatest risk to any cloud provider I think would be a war that could force national network isolation or government taking over infrastructure. And the grid would go down for a good while and water would stop, so everyone would start migrating, drinking polluted water, then maybe stealing food. At that point, whether or not they chose GC doesn’t matter anymore.