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Yes. "This person said the group’s leaders didn’t explicitly state what would happen to the cloud division if it didn’t reach a top two position by 2023. A com
by papito 3y ago
Yes.
"This person said the group’s leaders didn’t explicitly state what would happen to the cloud division if it didn’t reach a top two position by 2023. A commonly held view inside the group was that Google wouldn’t continue investing money if it failed to it meet its goal, the person said. "
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/google-brass-set-2023-as-deadline-to-beat-amazon-microsoft-in-cloud?utm_source=hackernews&utm_medium=unlock https://www.theinformation.com/articles/google-brass-set-202...
- illiarian 3y agoThey have insanely expensive multi-year contracts with quite a few huge companies (and probably government agencies, too). You don't just shut GCP down.
- zvrba 3y agoYou don't just shut it down, but discontinue further sales instead so that existing contracts die gracefully.
- surgical_fire 3y agoYes, Google is known for discontinuing things gracefully. I almost want GCP to fail just for the popcorn factor.
- acheron 3y agoHaving consulted at government agencies, it’s all AWS and Azure that I’ve seen. There’s a lot of government out there so I wouldn’t be incredibly surprised if somebody somewhere is using GCP but it’s not at all common as far as I can tell.
- mrweasel 3y ago> You don't just shut GCP down. No, but you could "Google Group" it. Just keep the lights on and not develop it any further and just watch customers leave over time. There might actually be a bunch of corporate customers that would view the static environment as a plus. I don't really see them shutting down GCP, even if it's a bit anonymous. It is interesting that Google can't turn a profit on GCP, given that both AWS and Azure is doing to well.