The main reason I tend to shy away from GC is that it&#x27;s blocked in China. AWS isn&#x27;t (which also means Heroku isn&#x27;t blocked since Heroku runs on AWS, so I use AWS for IaaS and Heroku for PaaS).<p>If you plan to offer multi-lingual content, anticipate having viewers in that part of the world, and your content isn&#x27;t something they would be interested in blocking, it&#x27;s just a practicality worth factoring in.<p>Another reason is that I find the GC console a mess. I had to simultaneously use two versions of the console to get different tasks done; they didn&#x27;t have one console that had all features of the system. Heroku was a lot cleaner and easier to navigate in this respect.