Google says it is compute constrained, and GKE teams now hit ZONE_RESOURCE_POOL_EXHAUSTED on CPU machine families, not only GPUs. Here is what the error means, what Google recommends, what AWS can and cannot offer, and how to offload workloads from GCP to AWS with one platform instead of two. Romaric founded Qovery to make Kubernetes accessible to every engineering team. He writes about platform strategy, developer experience, and the future of cloud infrastructure.