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They have insanely expensive multi-year contracts with quite a few huge companies (and probably government agencies, too). You don't just shut GCP down.
by illiarian 4y ago
They 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 4y agoYou don't just shut it down, but discontinue further sales instead so that existing contracts die gracefully.
- surgical_fire 4y agoYes, Google is known for discontinuing things gracefully. I almost want GCP to fail just for the popcorn factor.
- acheron 4y 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 4y 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.