Google Cloud Platform

For how it helps our team with data storage and connecting to GA4 as a backup option, and the incredibly low cost for us to use it and reliably back up our data, I would highly recommend using this tool for all of your cloud storage needs. It's easy to use and their customer service is always responsive and easy to get a hold of.

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• Google Cloud Platform provide the autoscale workload when the workload need to scale up or down
• Great pay-as-you-go pricing model and dashboard report of pricing that help user monitor and optimize the cost
• Using simpler than other cloud provider

• The Logs Explorer is quite hard to dig into and find logs of interest
• BigQuery transparency for BigLake vs External tables isn't the best
• Google Group management for permissions can get hairy.

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I've found it incredibly easy to use since day one of deployment.

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I feel GCS buckets are pretty interchangeable with Amazon S3 as far as I have typically used them. It just depends on who or your company wants to give money to. I have liked the Google Cloud Platform BigQuery console better than the interface for Snowflake, but that may be due to familiarity and the proportion of time I've used Google Cloud Platform over Snowflake.

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• Approx 30% cost savings after moving from on-prem to GCP due to reduced hardware, maintenance of DC support, and energy costs.
• There are much faster release cycles due to CI/CD pipelines with cloud build and scalable infrastructure using GKE. It works very nicely.
• We use BigQuery a lot, and what used to take hours now takes minutes, speeding up business decisions across teams. Clients.

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