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Re:A Google Cloud support engineer solves a tough DNS case by londons_explore on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @01:43PM (#23237773)
When purchasing support, you should consider you are really buying an expert who really knows google cloud, but doesn't have special buttons to click to do things you couldn't do.

If a service you depend on is down, your support agent will be able to tell you it's down, but not speed up the fix.

Cloud support will have more information about performance black holes and limitations that the documents don't describe. They also will be able to advise on "is this design or that design likely better". They generally know how the backends of GCP services work, and their common failure modes, which is pretty hard knowledge to get from the outside.

Re:A Google Cloud support engineer solves a tough DNS case by bb611 on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @02:51PM (#23238610)
This sounds a lot like my experience with AWS support.

They really deeply understand AWS, are very responsive to calls/emails, but often have no tools to solve the problem we're having right now.

This even happened with some of their high end hardware, we did an upgrade for a critical set of instances to some extremely pricey dedicated hosts and ended up in a runaround for over a week due to a hardware issue on their side.