“The initial onboarding call was entirely about how much money I was planning on spending with google (as opposed to the Amazon call where they wanted to help me architect my service).”
AWS put a YC startup in touch with engineers. Google sent a sales rep who kept asking for a monthly dollar figure from a company with no revenue, then handed it off to a third-party consultant. Google Cloud has great engineers and a support reputation to match this story. Credits are cheap. Making a founder feel like a wallet is expensive.