A rare opinion but one I share wholeheartedly. I started my career at Google Cloud but spent the rest of it working with AWS. AWS always feels like an uphill struggle, lots of micro management and resources that need to be duct-taped together. I'm lucky to have recently landed a Google Cloud gig and my God, things are so much easier and smoother now. It just seems better designed and integrated to me, albeit much fewer services to choose from if you don't buy into their ecosystem.

I'm sure it's because of it's age and them kind of creating their version of IAM from scratch (someone correct me if they copied this structure from elsewhere) but you have to do a lot of goofy obtuse work with IAM automation. There are times I have to go into the console/cli and grab some sort of specific UID for an object instead of using its name, things like that that just make it annoying. Sometimes you can't use an account name and have to use the org ID... I could go on. You just kind of deal with it.

I haven't worked on GCP since maybe 2016-17 so I'm not sure how it's going over there anymore.