> AWS started because Amazon wanted to lease out their spare infrastructure capacity. No, it really did not. The reality is even if Meta has the best data cen

> AWS started because Amazon wanted to lease out their spare infrastructure capacity. No, it really did not. The reality is even if Meta has the best data center infrastructure in the world their infrastructure is focused solely on solving their problems and operates under the constraint that it is not consumable by any arbitrary company. aws was built more or less in isolation to amazon's original infrastructure and gcp was built as a layer on top of google's internal infrastructure. there is use in what exists internally but only to (re)build the product you'd sell. The lead time for them to get even basic primitives out the door would be significant, not even considering the depth of features that more sophisticated cloud customers want.