Okay, that makes a lot of sense. If Google told me they’d match my pricing then sure, I’d probably look at doing that too.

Still a lot of issues on GCP for low latency DB deployments though (no permanent NVME, higher latency on the network backed block storage, etc).

Presumably you start looking at Spanner but that’s it’s own world of hurt (higher latency than MySQL/Postgres, a reeaaallyy basic query planner, the list goes on). You have to change the way you think about data with it and pretty much re-architect your data access.

Agreed re machine learning etc.