> But what would the world look like if the search engine giant had started selling capacity on its vast infrastructure back in 2005, before Amazon Web Services

> But what would the world look like if the search engine giant had started selling capacity on its vast infrastructure back in 2005, before Amazon Web Services launched, and then shortly thereafter started selling capacity on its high level platform services? What if Google did start selling capacity on its vast infrastructure in 2008, and we got Snapchat as a result? > To put it bluntly, it would have been more interesting to see Google endorse CockroachDB and support it on Cloud Platform To put it bluntly, no. And he never even attempts to answer the question in his headline.