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I think this is a pessimistic view of Google Cloud given the revenues they're now making from it. A more interesting question would be about Rackspace and Soft

by nixgeek 10y ago

I think this is a pessimistic view of Google Cloud given the revenues they're now making from it. A more interesting question would be about Rackspace and SoftLayer, the former of which has been taken private and the latter was acquired by IBM, both are in the "We will give you anything you want, this is how much it'll cost" side of the hosting business which is AFAICS most likely to be under pressure in the next 10 years as workloads get modernised.

mianos 10y ago
It is my understanding they are making a fair profit in the Pixel phone and Android from ads too. Sure it's pessimistic but, after my experience, I still love to hate AWS and will choose it first. While the privatisation of Rackspace is a worry, damn their support is so good, albeit, they only offer a very limited number of services compared to GCE, AWS and Azure.