Those are all marginally profitable staff billed through post sales. Consulting business sides of tech companies shouldn’t be considered part of the core footpr

Those are all marginally profitable staff billed through post sales. Consulting business sides of tech companies shouldn’t be considered part of the core footprint as they’re profit centers based on staff scale. The core product itself is designed to scale independently of people, because the marginal person doesn’t increase profits while the marginal unit of infrastructure. Sources, I was directly involved. Edit: my experience is with aws not gcp. Gcp is a bit of a non entity in enterprise cloud.