Google Domains

A year back, I had to migrate my domain after Google decided to shut down Google Domains. I had to, not only, painfully setup multiple side-projects subdomain mappings again on a new domain registrar but also re-verify my domain and re-create those mappings on Google Cloud Run.

Google Container Registry

Google Container Registry is shutting down in 2025. It has been replaced with a new project called Artifact Registry. So, why is Container Registry being shut down? Probably because it 10X cheaper than Artifact Registry.

I just spent multiple hours migrating side-projects from GCR to GAR. It wasn’t easy. Some projects were deployed multiple years back and are working perfectly fine. Some others are single-page homepages.

Google Cloud Monitoring

Google Cloud Monitoring was free, so, I started using it, and then one day I received a cryptic email telling me about the significant price increase. Now, I have to figure out, if the Google’s pricing is competitive and, if not, what’s the right replacement should be.

The two migrations have been laborious. While Google Cloud has made me jump hoops, there has been little upside in doing these migrations.

Google Cloud - great engineering, good product, terrible strategy

I strongly believe Google Cloud is a superior product to both AWS and Microsoft Azure.

The UX is much simpler. The primitives are much nicer and evolved compared to AWS. The reliability while not as high as AWS is pretty close.

However, the continuous churn that I have experienced has made it hard to recommend it.