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I personally also don't buy in the latter. But performance and consistency do play a role in making serious choices. I also agree that they should share some c

• kevinsimper 7y ago
  And in the blogpost they don't even mention cost as one of the top reasons they are moving, which could justify it. They show that their latency has gone down, but that is not always the reason just because it correlates.
  • fxfan 7y ago
    Because cost isn't the top reason, the top reason is that Google Ventures has investment in Gitlab
• noahl 7y ago
  They probably can't share their cost analysis. I would expect that most companies that both a) are big enough for the cloud providers to bother talking to and b) have proven they have the ability to run their workloads on multiple clouds are getting discounts from whatever cloud provider they end up using. One condition of these discounts might be that they can't publish exactly the prices they are getting, or any information that would let you infer the price.