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Hmm, sounds interesting. Why do you think they will do so?
by kodisha 11y ago
Hmm, sounds interesting.
Why do you think they will do so?
- toomuchtodo 11y agoIts not their core business. Google constantly exits businesses unless they explode in profitability. As someone who currently uses AWS, it would take an act of god for me to move over to Google Cloud, even if the tools were better and even with the cost of some services (nearline storage) cheaper than AWS. I'm not just paying for a service. I'm paying because I know AWS is in it for the long haul. This is great for Spotify, just as AWS was great for Netflix (considering both services are terrible at representing true workloads; they're both just control planes serving static content, videos or music). I don't see it dragging a ton of business into Google, just making their acquisitions easier for people who decide to start on GCP or migrate in. Just my two cents.
- dragonwriter 11y ago> Its not their core business. Its the heart of their core competency. Its not their principal mechanism for monetizing that, though outside of the core advertising business its also an avenue that they seem to have made one of the most significant, longest push to make a route to monetization, even in the presence of large, dedicated competitors (behind Apps for Work.) Obviously, any insufficiently profitable business from any vendor will eventually be closed down, either voluntarily or by business failure, but Google Cloud Platform doesn't seem like a particularly likely candidate for closure on any timescale on which any existing cloud platform would be reliable.
- toomuchtodo 11y ago> Its the heart of their core competency. For "Google Scale" computing tasks. Not someone with tens or hundreds of virtual machines.
- 010a 11y agoWould you have said the same thing about Amazon when they started AWS? "Data centers aren't their core business: retail is".
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- toomuchtodo 11y agoYes. But, Amazon is known for their customer service, even in the AWS space. Google is not. If Google wants to succeed in certain spaces, they need to commit to them for a duration, and evangelize them. I don't see them doing that anywhere as well as Amazon does with AWS.
- true_religion 11y agoAre they known for the customer service with AWS? Anyways both companies provide SLAs, phone and email support, and consultation for a price.
- true_religion 11y agoAre they known for the customer service with AWS? Anyways both companies provide SLAs, phone and email support, and consultation for a price.