Google Cloud Platform
No written verdict yet. Here is what commenters said.
Why people recommend it
“I love GCP and its services; we have been very pleased with it over the years”
“Google got VMs right.”
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“AWS to GCP migration saving $5K/month with zero downtime.”
“I tend to prefer GCP at this point because at least I can programmatically disconnect the billing account”
“the development experience within GCP is far superior”
Caveats and dissent
“The regions Stockholm, Osaka, and Montreal have three zones housed in one or two physical data centers.”
“Google cloud is having issues in London impacting HSBC, Lloyds & Bank Of Scotland”
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“Google Cloud has become awful in the last year as they have over indexed on this idea with gemini”
“many are still hosting on Google Cloud, AWS or Microsoft, therefore you are not 100% insulated from Cloud Act”
Often compared with
Amazon Web Services45 comments mention both3 moved from Amazon Web Services to Google Cloud Platform
Who recommends it in their own words
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Threads where it came up
- Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2026) 8 mentions
- Railway Blocked by Google Cloud 5 mentions
- I returned to AWS, and was reminded why I left 4 mentions
- Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2026) 4 mentions
- Railway GCP Account Suspension Incident Report 3 mentions
- Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2026) 3 mentions
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“Google (https://cloud.google.com/gov) and Azure (https://azure.microsoft.com/en-in/solutions/government) also provide said services”
Exactly. I use this stuff at work, but why would I ever risk this for my own stuff ?
“The regions Stockholm, Osaka, and Montreal have three zones housed in one or two physical data centers.”
“Google cloud is having issues in London impacting HSBC, Lloyds & Bank Of Scotland”
They switched from post paid billing with shitty delayed caps to prepaid but the prepaid expires after a year…
“AWS, Azure, GCP”
“GCP”
“Technical: TypeScript, Node.js, Python, React/Vue, PostgreSQL, vector DBs, NoSQL, AWS, GCP”
“Kubernetes on GCP”
“Stack: Kotlin, Python, GCP.”
“Google Cloud is killing it”
“Google Cloud followed.”
“Google Cloud has become awful in the last year as they have over indexed on this idea with gemini”
“GCP and AWS for client/cloud environments”
“GCP”
“GCP (Cloud Run, Cloud Tasks, VM, Network, Cloud Functions, Storage)”
“GCP, Azure”
“In the meantime Belgian public sector will use Google Cloud, it seems”
“Technologies: Python, Ansible, Terraform, Kubernetes, Postgres, AWS/GCP/Bare Metal”
“the price that Google Cloud is reselling them at if you commit for 36 months”
“GCP”
“building a multi-channel dispatch pipeline (scheduling, queuing, rate-limiting, retries, idempotent execution) on GCP Cloud Tasks + Cloud Run”
“Technologies: Python, FastAPI, Django, TypeScript, Node.js, Express.js, React, PostgreSQL, Redis, kubernetes, AWS, GCP”
“Docker, AWS, GCP”
“cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP)”
“Azure, GCP, Terraform”
“many are still hosting on Google Cloud, AWS or Microsoft, therefore you are not 100% insulated from Cloud Act”
“most good cloud consultants ask their clients to stay away from GCP”
> As a former GCP consultant, I can share that these sort of shut downs aren't random and it's usually due to the customer not being compliant - that breaks cloud compliance requirements for the big clouds, so automated systems flag it. Eg. Someone serving CP on their CDN, for instance. If this was the case it would obviously be horrific. I did check to see, and I noticed that Railway is not listed as an ESP who sent
“I have not trusted GCP since.”
“We rely on them so I would have definitely noticed.”
“Google and GCP have a problem where they completely cook users who get flagged in their automated fraud net”
“Google Cloud accidentally deletes $125 billion Australian pension fund - May 2024”
“It was a pretty nasty bug”
“I love GCP and its services; we have been very pleased with it over the years”
I believe the problem was always the process that Google has where they tend to want to automate everything from the start and make it very difficult to reach a human and explain the situation. The service itself seems solid but if you make it difficult to address any problems when(not if) they occur then I won't be comfortable doing business with you. I stay away from their services for anything serious for this rea
“Google Cloud has blocked our account, making some Railway services unavailable.”
“Google cloud is quite finnicky and could ban you”
“GitHub and GCloud are now the painful platforms for me”
“GCP has it's own share of issues.”