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>I literally know zero people using Google Cloud. Everyone is on Amazon or Azure. Snapchat uses Google Cloud. So does Pokemon Go.
by alasdair_ 8y ago
>I literally know zero people using Google Cloud. Everyone is on Amazon or Azure.
Snapchat uses Google Cloud. So does Pokemon Go.
- Someone1234 8y agoThey have a dozen or more "hero companies" that they advertise. The big question is are those organic customers or attracted onto the platform for big discounts in order to be adverts?
- gcbw2 8y ago> Pokemon Go The poster child of unplanned outages and scalability issues. Ouch.
- PhoenixReborn 8y agoBear in mind that Niantic (company behind Pokemon Go) was originally an incubated project within Google. So they have plenty of reasons to stick with GCP for the hosting. As for Snapchat they were originally on Google App Engine so that incentivised them to stick with the platform as well. But for new companies starting today it'd be a tough sell to use most of GCP.
- buxtehude 8y agoCompanies who see Amazon as a competitor are very often going to GCP instead of AWS. There is also a growing trend of multi cloud deployments - using those that are best for your particular use case or increasing your fault tolerance.
- dustindiamond 8y agoDo you host your own k8s for multi-cloud? Rancher?