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Except Google maps was a Google cloud offering.
by aaomidi 8y ago
Except Google maps was a Google cloud offering.
- antonvs 8y agoI stand corrected. What I was getting at, though, is that if you're a big user of GCloud IaaS products and some of their more basic infrastructual SaaS offerings (Cloud SQL, Bigtable, etc. etc.) you're unlikely to run into the kind of issue you mentioned, and everything from the pricing to the way customer relationships are handled reflects that. Google Maps is basically an application as a service, which, while technically all part of "cloud", is not really part of the core cloud offering in the same way. On the Cloud Console, Google Maps is listed in the menu at the very bottom, as the only entry under "Other Google Solutions". All the cloud providers have a mix of offerings that range from very standard (IaaS, or managed open source systems like Cloud SQL and AWS RDS) to very proprietary (things like BigQuery, DynamoDB.) If you decide to use one of the very proprietary ones, you have to recognize that you're creating a very different kind of dependency and risk - migrating to another provider or hosting onprem becomes a rewrite, instead of a migration. That's a risk you should ideally be aware of before you choose such a solution, and it's not unique to Google. That same level of risk doesn't exist for the other kinds of products I've mentioned, so it doesn't make sense to treat that risk as though it applies to all Google products.