Google Cloud

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1. Console is slow to respond to every interactionUnreviewed

   57 people since 2008, in 15 different years · 3 this year

   20082026
   • Console is very slow to respond when interacting with it2026-02-20
   • The console is slow, broken and horrible to use2026-01-29
   • Console UX is nonsensical and hard to use2025-12-10
   Something wrong here?

2. Services hard to find, with unintuitive names and sub-productsUnreviewed

   9 people since 2015, in 6 different years · none this year

   20082026
   • Confusing interface makes users feel lost in the product2025-11-03
   • Interface behavior is not obvious even to experienced engineers2025-10-26
   • Multiple menu levels make the console hard to use and search is poor2024-11-16
   Something wrong here?

3. Billing limit settings hard to find among many options, causing surprise chargesUnreviewed

   7 people since 2017, in 5 different years · 4 this year

   20082026
   • Horrible UX, inconsistent alerts and poor default limits lead to unused charges2026-10-30
   • Budget alerts don't cap spending, and the warning is easy to miss or misread2026-04-22
   • Couldn't find a hard billing cap; spent an hour searching settings2026-04-16
   Something wrong here?

4. Cloud console and G Suite admin consoles not integrated, confusing usersUnreviewed

   5 people since 2018, in 3 different years · none this year

   20082026
   • Internal management tools are unwieldy, often command-line driven, more frustrating than GCP console2023-10-12
   • Configuring things in the Google console UI is messy and hard to master2023-01-31
   • Features differ across console, CLI and SDK, and IAM roles are confusingly tied to G Suite admin2023-01-27
   Something wrong here?

5. Slow UI drops older log records when scrolling, forcing reloadsUnreviewed

   4 people since 2016, in 4 different years · none this year

   20082026
   • Logging system is slow and the UI scrolls with jank2022-04-25
   • Table headers scroll away instead of staying pinned, and pages load slowly with the logs viewer sluggish2019-11-06
   • UI is slow and drops older log records when scrolling, forcing reloads2018-07-12
   Something wrong here?

6. Quota increase requests take forever and can't be automated via APIUnreviewed

   4 people since 2019, in 4 different years · 1 this year

   20082026
   • Quota page shows 0% usage and the import button silently fails, so the user can't tell their real limits2025-12-11
   • Quota increase requires a sales rep process with no rep assigned, so the request can't be completed2024-07-22
   • Quota increase requests take forever and cannot be automated via API2020-07-28
   Something wrong here?

7. Deprecated default rules make adding a service account hard to completeUnreviewed

   4 people since 2019, in 4 different years · none this year

   20082026
   • Confusing deprecated default rules make adding a service account hard to complete2025-08-07
   • Default rules are confusing to change, blocking a basic task like adding a service account2025-08-07
   • Confusing service accounts, badly named permissions, and changing service names make setup hard2024-02-27
   Something wrong here?

8. Authentication setup jumps into complicated concepts, docs unhelpfulUnreviewed

   4 people since 2016, in 3 different years · none this year

   20082026
   • Examples fail without credentials, and auth docs are a confusing mess of unrelated use cases2022-10-14
   • Getting credentials and permissions is confusing for newcomers, with a steep learning curve2022-03-03
   • Authentication setup is so complex that even simple tools need elaborate configuration2020-07-25
   Something wrong here?

9. Bill lumps all charges together, hiding what is being paid forUnreviewed

   4 people since 2017, in 3 different years · none this year

   20082026
   • Bill aggregates resources so it's impossible to tell what each cost2023-09-30
   • Can't tell what usage will cost until the bill arrives2019-12-11
   • Bill lumps everything together, so users can't tell what they are paying for2019-09-07
   Something wrong here?

10. Web app too slow to use in FirefoxUnreviewed

    4 people since 2020, in 3 different years · 1 this year

    20082026
    • Web app is so slow it is practically unusable in Firefox2026-01-07
    • Site runs extremely slowly, practically unusable, in Firefox Android2025-10-11
    • Web page is slow and uses over 1GiB of memory2020-12-09
    Something wrong here?

11. Quick starts, tutorials and how-to guides are hard to tell apartUnreviewed

    4 people since 2016, in 3 different years · none this year

    20082026
    • Documentation is organized by product rather than by how-to tasks, making needed answers hard to find2022-05-02
    • Docs are disorganized: quick starts, tutorials and how-to guides are hard to tell apart2019-12-19
    • Docs aren't organized around solving specific problems, so users can't figure out how to do tasks2019-02-13
    Something wrong here?

12. IAM settings scattered, making roles hard to find and decodeUnreviewed

    4 people since 2019, in 3 different years · none this year

    20082026
    • IAM settings are scattered across many places, making roles hard to find and decode2025-05-05
    • IAM authentication is complicated and poorly documented, hard to get right2023-10-26
    • Cryptic error messages and undocumented IAM behavior make configuration hard to troubleshoot2023-10-25
    Something wrong here?

13. Admin console locked for days during card verification, with no undoUnreviewed

    3 people since 2015, in 3 different years · 1 this year

    20082026
    • Account locked after login from Laos; recovery demanded photos of a lost payment card2026-04-05
    • Locked out of account and must verify info only available after logging in2025-11-04
    • Admin console locked for days during credit card verification with no way to undo2015-11-20
    Something wrong here?

14. Error messages are cryptic, making failures hard to understandUnreviewed

    3 people since 2017, in 3 different years · none this year

    20082026
    • Random nonsense error messages make issues hard to get resolved2023-10-25
    • Error messages are very cryptic, making failures hard to understand2019-02-13
    • Debugging is really hard and failures happen for unclear reasons2017-12-31
    Something wrong here?

15. Credentials repeatedly invalidated, forcing repeated loginsUnreviewed

    3 people since 2020, in 3 different years · none this year

    20082026
    • Gcloud commands break on their setup, spamming library errors2022-03-25
    • Credentials get invalidated repeatedly and the gcloud CLI is hard to use2021-02-24
    • Gcloud tools are slow and memory-hungry, docs are cluttered with upsell ads, auth is inconsistent2020-01-06
    Something wrong here?

16. Log filtering and browsing is cumbersome to useUnreviewed

    3 people since 2018, in 2 different years · none this year

    20082026
    • Log filtering and browsing is cumbersome and the UI feels janky2020-06-30
    • Confusing Google interface and hard-to-find logs add large overhead for simple projects2018-10-03
    • Hard to figure out how to search and filter logs2018-07-12
    Something wrong here?

17. Pricing calculator unusable on iOS browsersUnreviewed

    3 people since 2017, in 2 different years · none this year

    20082026
    • Pricing calculator is unusable on iOS browsers2020-08-15
    • Pricing calculator doesn't fit iOS Safari screen, so it is unusable2017-03-10
    • Calculator page is unusable on mobile because of its form-filling design2017-02-25
    Something wrong here?

18. Must create a project and activate APIs before basic useUnreviewed

    3 people since 2019, in 2 different years · none this year

    20082026
    • Must enable each API separately for every new project, making basic services hard to start using2023-10-25
    • Setup requires creating a project and activating APIs before basic use2023-03-18
    • No API to create projects, so provisioning must be done manually2019-12-12
    Something wrong here?

This list counts all time; the period switch above only changes the ranking. Each issue is a group of similar complaints raised by at least 3 people in 3 different months and threads. Each line under an issue is Claude Haiku's summary of one of its latest comments, not a quote; follow it to read the comment on Hacker News.