I've used all 3 major providers - AWS, GCP, Azure.
AWS is no gem... it also has it's own byzantine processes to sign up and pay for things. And it also doesn't support any real and reasonable way to stop spend when you hit limits (abusive practices).
But at least I can generally sign up for and consume a new service without hours and hours of debugging.
For context - Google own Gemini 3 utterly fails to figure out how to do something as simple as "access the image doodle feature" proudly marketed here: https://gemini.google/overview/image-generation/
It can't figure out how to do. Honestly, I still can't figure out how to do it, despite signing up for about 5 different products, and trying 4 different UIs. The closest I got was to their inpainting/outpainting UI on the legacy models in their image create studio.
And none of that involved creating a billing account, which I already had, and was required for 3 of the signups.
As far as I'm concerned, this feature is fake marketing. It doesn't exist. That's the "quality" level of GCP.
Scarily - yes, although not by much.
I've used all 3 major providers - AWS, GCP, Azure.
AWS is no gem... it also has it's own byzantine processes to sign up and pay for things. And it also doesn't support any real and reasonable way to stop spend when you hit limits (abusive practices).
But at least I can generally sign up for and consume a new service without hours and hours of debugging.
For context - Google own Gemini 3 utterly fails to figure out how to do something as simple as "access the image doodle feature" proudly marketed here: https://gemini.google/overview/image-generation/
It can't figure out how to do. Honestly, I still can't figure out how to do it, despite signing up for about 5 different products, and trying 4 different UIs. The closest I got was to their inpainting/outpainting UI on the legacy models in their image create studio.
And none of that involved creating a billing account, which I already had, and was required for 3 of the signups.
As far as I'm concerned, this feature is fake marketing. It doesn't exist. That's the "quality" level of GCP.
Exact reason I used none of these platforms for my personal projects, ever.
Who is comparing to AWS and why? They can both be terrible at the same time, you know.