Google Cloud Spanner is now half the cost of Amazon DynamoDB
Just moved our infra from GCP to AWS. Kubernetes clusters, LB, storage, lambdas, KMS and all of it.<p>Google runs their tech stack as if it&#x27;s a startup that builds their CV. Everything is immature, tons of hacks, undocumented features. If you are on their k8s there are tons of upcoming new versions and features that force you to revisit key hacks you put in your infra because of their misgivings.  Our infra team keeps tinkering around our infra and it never ends. It&#x27;s 50:50. 50% of time making sure we are prepared for their shit and 50 % our ambitious infra plans. Good luck with that.<p>With AWS our bill is 60% of what GCP used to be running 3 k8s clusters.<p>AWS support is so nice, you can&#x27;t believe it.<p>Nah, I don&#x27;t trust Google with anything. It&#x27;s a scam. Google&#x27;s support is horrendous. They refer you to idiots that drag you through calls until your will for life dies. And you&#x27;re back to the mercy of some lost engineer that may comment on a github issue you opened 20 days ago. We have a bug reported back in 2020 that got closed recently without any action because it became stale and the API changed so much it doesn&#x27;t really matter. It&#x27;s that bad.<p>The billing day is a monthly reminder you&#x27;re paying entitled devs to do subpar work other companies do a lot better.<p>No, we don&#x27;t miss them already.