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> If Linode can do it, then surely Google can.

No, because Linode is using humans to interact with you. Google will not humans in those situation, their mantra is to automate everything so they can scale up with minimal human effort, even when it doesn't make sense to scale up that way.



That's just a choice Google made. They can do it like Linode, they just choose not to.


I hope they can also automatically scale down when their customers flee to the competition.


oh it makes sense for them, it just doesnt make sense if youre a customer.




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