I've been a big fan of Google Cloud Platform from the beginning, and they aren't even paying me to say that. A lot of critics place GCP far enough behind AWS and Azure that most people haven't bothered to consider the "third option," but this leaves much of the story untold.

Spinning up a VPS is kind of like a "hello world" for gauging cloud providers. We can learn a lot about the dumb decisions (or lack thereof) embedded in a vendor's philosophy by how they chose to design the most simple task imaginable. Let's see what we've got here.

#cloud #google #vps