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What are the odds this brings GCP closer to https://killedbygoogle.com/ https://killedbygoogle.com/ ? Nobody pays retail for GCP anyways. Always wondered how m

• oneepic 4y ago
  IMO those odds are literally zero. Do you think AWS or Azure would get canned because of a single outage? There are lots of customers on GCP, and Google also appears to have a pretty big buy-in already -- just look at all the regions they have available in GCP.
• nknealk 4y ago
  They actually break it out now in their financial reporting. It’s a loss of 931 million for the most recent quarter on revenues of 5.8 billion. Likely most of the loss stems from R&D to develop the product offering.
• asjkaehauisa 4y ago
  They won't. GCP is a investment. Building DC/backbone infrastructure is a lot harder than x application. Still they need computing power to own products. Maybe in the paper they're losing money but in reality they're securing position in the market
• toast0 4y ago
  A packet loss incident due to cut fiber that lasted just over three hours according to the status page is not really that big of a deal. Fiber cuts happen, and are the only reliable method to determine if your redundant fibers are in the same bundle. As a non-customer, their status updates seem ok, one hour to open the incident isn't great, and transparency is near zero, but at least they provided regular updates once it was open.