The same limitations apply to the other on prem services. Theres no way the real EBS control and data plane is running on prem, its just some compatible service

The same limitations apply to the other on prem services. Theres no way the real EBS control and data plane is running on prem, its just some compatible service. Outposts has a limited feature set if you arent using vsphere, and Azure uses Microsoft's existing private cloud/on prem stack. Enterprises are scared of one way bad decisions so if GC can convince them containerizing and moving their apps to kubernetes first is worth it over "lift and shift" this could go well. One of the few competitive advantages google has for enterprises is they can point to Amazon and Azure being forced to add managed Kubernetes services, because customers wanted that instead of a proprietary orchestrator.