“ it’s well-known that they refuse to host (as a managed service) any third-party software until after AWS has already done the same thing and built a successfu

“ it’s well-known that they refuse to host (as a managed service) any third-party software until after AWS has already done the same thing and built a successful business around it, at which point their customers hold them at gunpoint. But that’s the bar, to get Google to support something.” This isn’t true, of course. They supported managed Kafka before AWS did: https://cloud.google.com/confluent https://cloud.google.com/confluent