Teams should consider many qualities when choosing a cloud provider like AWS, GCP (Google Cloud Platform) or Microsoft Azure. Product offerings, familiarity, pricing, and usability – among others. Compared to AWS, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is more usable for developers due to it’s core design approach surrounding resources, projects, APIs and Identities (IAM). This project-first approach avoids common bad practices like spaghetti namespaces, excessive permissions, and accidental exposure. Moreover, GCP includes much more advanced logging & alerting tools, comparable to Splunk and Data Dog, right out of the box.