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Re:Google made it nearly impossible for users to keep their ... by Spooky23 on Saturday May 29, 2021 @12:58PM (#27326561)
GCP is very different than the consumer services.
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Re:Google made it nearly impossible for users to keep their ... by ForHackernews on Saturday May 29, 2021 @05:01PM (#27328202)
So they claim. Anecdotal evidence suggests otherwise:

https://www.reddit.com/r/googlecloud/comments/gbh7p6/gcp_sus...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26252533

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Re:Google made it nearly impossible for users to keep their ... by Spooky23 on Sunday May 30, 2021 @11:04AM (#27333751)
I’m working on a piece of a project that’s on GCP and ran into an edge case issue. For at least this product, the engineer reminded me of the old school Sun and IBM support people. It was a breath of fresh air for me. I’ve heard AWS is similar but never experienced it firsthand. Other big tech companies are very different.

A few weeks ago, I submitted an incident with sample code and got a response back with code to implement a workaround, and the information related to the enhancement the engineer submitted so I could escalate if needed. They automatically transitioned support engineers in another geography at shift end without any drama or repetition from me. All within 12 hours.

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Re:Google made it nearly impossible for users to keep their ... by urthor on Saturday May 29, 2021 @11:50PM (#27330449)
No... Google actually has started hiring AWS style support engineers for GCP.

Google has realized that building up business to business support networks is a profitable approach.

Customers get nothing, because customers don't pay money. Customers are the product.

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