Technology isn't a weakness with Google... never was. Most of their stuff is top-notch technology-wise. The problems are from a business-angle and being their customer.
Meaning, even if you're a F500 company you are an insignificant gnat on the windshield of the gigantic G-machine that makes its money elsewhere.
Now, I don't believe think they'd actually shut GCP down. Cloud is just too damn strategic in a post Y2k world.
Complain about Amazon if you wish, and there are many reasons to. They are not as tech-oriented and the task-master culture of Bezos is well-known by now. But at the very least they are sales and customer focused, and retail and cloud is where they make their money. So incentives are better aligned with them. Even if their customer service is not amazing, the fact that it actually exists is a large factor in their favor.
> Technology isn't a weakness with Google... never was. Most of their stuff is top-notch technology-wise. The problems are from a business-angle and being their customer.
There's very little technologically impressive with GCP. It's the same products from all three vendors with few exceptions.
What's a clear weakness with GCP is Google's lack of seriousness as operators. Regions in the same data center, outages that take down a whole region for 3+ days. It's not good.
I remember early on G was doing several second billing, while AWS was on minutes. There are other things like better performance, authoring K8s and http2/3 etc that gave them the edge. AWS was earlier and had greater breadth of course.
Meaning, even if you're a F500 company you are an insignificant gnat on the windshield of the gigantic G-machine that makes its money elsewhere.
Now, I don't believe think they'd actually shut GCP down. Cloud is just too damn strategic in a post Y2k world.
Complain about Amazon if you wish, and there are many reasons to. They are not as tech-oriented and the task-master culture of Bezos is well-known by now. But at the very least they are sales and customer focused, and retail and cloud is where they make their money. So incentives are better aligned with them. Even if their customer service is not amazing, the fact that it actually exists is a large factor in their favor.