Your first hint that Google was very serious about cloud, was when we hired Diane Greene: http://www.businessinsider.com/google-hires-diane-greene-to-run-cloud

Your first hint that Google was very serious about cloud, was when we hired Diane Greene: http://www.businessinsider.com/google-hires-diane-greene-to-run-cloud-2015-11 http://www.businessinsider.com/google-hires-diane-greene-to-... Also when Urs publically states he wants Google Cloud revenue to be bigger than adwords, that ain't nothing: http://www.businessinsider.com/urs-holze-talks-google-cloud-beat-search-2015-11 http://www.businessinsider.com/urs-holze-talks-google-cloud-... I know it's popular to be cynical about Google and how we'll deprecate everything just as it's popular, but that kind of cynicism isn't really good for your health.