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> shutdown its cloud division seems more and more likely to happen That seems extremely unlikely, the products that Google shuts down from time to time are usu
by dewey 7y ago
> shutdown its cloud division seems more and more likely to happen
That seems extremely unlikely, the products that Google shuts down from time to time are usually not products that make money. GCP is a whole different beast with SLAs, paying customers, huge corporations using it. It also wouldn't make sense to give up the position as one of the few big cloud hosters.
- PrivateRepo 7y agoIt will start making sense when Google stops shelling out a comparatively-high level of free credits for every new deal. They’re subsidizing their own users to game market share numbers, and at some point the funding to do this will have slow (unless they find out that it actually converts evals to year over year clients).
- ldoughty 7y agoOur start up got a 6 figure AWS credit with 3 year expiration date... I'd say AWS does the same
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- ximaera 7y agoThey say that's set to be decided in or around 2023 one way or another. https://www.theinformation.com/articles/google-brass-set-2023-as-deadline-to-beat-amazon-microsoft-in-cloud https://www.theinformation.com/articles/google-brass-set-202...