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Re:Twitter migrates data to Google Cloud by zjaffee on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @01:23PM (#18980955)
As someone whose worked with multiple cloud providers (at very large scales), I would not recommend google cloud simply because of support issues I've had and clearly misrepresented service capabilities and limits.

I will agree that GCP has some nice quality of life features, and is certainly favorable for a small project compared to some other providers, but I find it hard to trust google's ability to keep up with the demands of a large organization.

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Re:Twitter migrates data to Google Cloud by oppositelock on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @03:29PM (#18982524)
Same here. I'm the tech lead responsible for cloud infrastructure at a company with a large cloud presence, and have been doing this for years. Google has better technology in a lot of ways, but awful customer support and even customer treatment. A billing glitch on their side tore down all of our infrastructure and data at a previous employer, without so much as a "we're sorry". With AWS, if such a thing happens, you have an email from your account rep.
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