Why is GCP better for cloud native startups?

 Selecting the cloud platform is one of the hardest and most strategic product development decisions for a startup. Both GCP and AWS have their competitive advantages, and no one single cloud platform is better across the board. However, for startups it is crucial to get services, features and performance that are more aligned product development to speed up the building the startup MVP while bringing great options for product roadmap development and capabilities to run and operate at scale which is the core success criteria that startups have as a business when they get started. Making the right decision in early stages will save time and money once they scale and become successful. See the following App development and deliver competitive advantages on why GCP is the best choice for startups to build their software and future on: 

Open Source: to allow startups to create capabilities with less vendor lock-in, and GCP is the best option as its products and services are built around open-source frameworks and APIs like Kubernetes (GKE) which upgrades its master and notes automatically (AWs and Azure are done manually) Cloud Run (Knative) and Apache Beam. In addition, it helps startups to expand their capabilities integrating with third party open source ISVs. Google created Kubernetes a few years back, most recently also created Isto for service mesh, which was released as open source as well.

Multi-Cloud: Google Cloud Anthos is a multi cloud platform to allow developers build apps and deliver on bare metal, VMware (vSphere), AWS, Azure and GCP (other clouds don't position themselves to bring a PaaS to build cloud native apps and deploy anywhere, which is important when your cross the chasm and start your scale phase where you want to deploy your solution across any cloud. Anthos brings under the hood GKE and Istio which empowers developers to build and run cloud native container apps at scale and track services. 

Cloud Native Managed Platforms: Startups strive by building full-stack SaaS solutions, which relies on software developer and cloud native applications as their core product, and GCP brings two managed cloud native platforms to allow startups to build on and scale:

SRE: Google has created the SRE (sire Reliability Engineering) a few years back and wrote the book on that, which allows companies to be super effective to release software and operate it at scale. 

DORA: The DevOps research and assessment recognized by developers and Gartner as the #1 method and practice improving software development and delivery that makes companies reduce their time from code to release to run (release software faster). 

Container: Google GKE and Cloud Run are the industry leading container and serverless platforms, and are way ahead of any cloud provider in terms of features, scalability and security.

• Cloud Run and GKE (google kubernetes engine) managed container platforms bring trust and confidence to a startup because Google Cloud has the most advanced container solution and also runs and manages the largest container clusters in the world. Cloud Run is extremely versatile and can provide the best of both worlds: 
• Developer productivity of a PaaS and the flexibility of the CaaS with pierceable abstractions.
• Developer experience and productivity: GCP provides the best cloud developer tooling (cloud code and build) that speeds up development, enables differentiating feature sets, and minimizes operational overhead, which turns out to be better for developer experience and productivity while reducing operational overhead. Ultimately, all together helps startups to release software faster.
• Customer success and support: making debugging easier for developers, Cloud Build brings the best CI and declarative build service with unit testing support Cloud Ops monitoring and logging empower easier debugging and better granular visibility 

Pricing Model: GCP brings the best pricing structure and also is cheaper compared to other cloud providers. Cloud Run provides the pricing per event, which makes it a Serverless option, and GKE is the quickest and most integrated and cheaper Kubernetes platform. Scalability is important and pricing reflects the ability of GCP to run and operate at scale which Google Cloud GKE and Cloud Run brings a competitive advantage for startups from day one. 

Data-Driven: Thinking on the future of roadmap to improve experience, operation and brings more options to product monetization startups must become data driven, and ML becomes the key in that direction and Google Cloud provides more powerful machine learning capabilities and data sets to allow startups to learn and build on. In addition, GCP is farther ahead in ML services than AWS.

Networking: GCP won the Network Throughput benchmark, delivering nearly triple the throughput of either AWS or Azure.Notably, GCP’s worst performing machine for Network Throughput outpaced both AWS and Azure’s best performing machines.

Services: GCP services align better to the core of startup product development to create a better and more elegant architected to automate process and operations while is also better once you think about your product at scale which is the success criteria every startup wants to achieve as a business. 

These are the top 10 reasons I truly believe are differentiators and help cloud native startups to build their software stack with an architectural freedom, lower operating cost and insights to improve process and find new product market fit. As a former founder of startup I always thought that the goal is to go all the way to an IPO, you cannot control the outcome, but you can control your execution and build the best product to your market, then from this perspective why not to partner with the company that not only has the best technology but also built and operates 9 out 10 products that have 1B+ users on the planet.