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That's a great point. These cloud hosting companies don't make this a natural evolution though, because there's no human to talk to, you start tiny and increase
by Latteland 8y ago
That's a great point. These cloud hosting companies don't make this a natural evolution though, because there's no human to talk to, you start tiny and increase your usage over time. But every company depending on something and paying serious money should have a specific agreement. I wonder if this could still happen though, even if you have a separate contract.
- sargun 8y agoOnce you hit a certain spend, Google contacts you and asks you to sign a thing.
- dasil003 8y agoThere's a mismatch between how much you spend and how much business value is there. The spend for management systems of physical infrastructure like wind turbines is tiny relative to revenue compared to the typical pure software company, especially freemium or ad-driven stuff where revenue-to-compute ratio is very low. Calibrating for this wouldn't really be in Google's DNA.
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- keypusher 8y ago> These cloud hosting companies don't make this a natural evolution though, because there's no human to talk to This is not true at all. Once you start spending real money on GCP or AWS, they will reach out to you. You will probably sign a support contract and have an account manager at that point. Or you might go with enterprise support where you have dedicated technical assets within the company that can help with case escalation, architecture review, billing optimization, etc.
- Latteland 8y agoIt makes sense that would happen. So they just didn't have the contact info for the people here? Maybe they just were spending a little, but their whole business still depended on it.