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Just because you are hosting at a company doesn’t mean they are “controlling” it.
by dewey 2y ago
Just because you are hosting at a company doesn’t mean they are “controlling” it.
- johnisgood 2y agoCan't they stop providing services at a whim? Can't they do whatever with the data?
- kelnos 2y agoYes to the first, but other platforms that run k8s exist. No to the second, unless they've come to some sure of agreement with Cornell that lets them.
- johnisgood 2y agoThe first is already awful. Without notice?
- surajrmal 2y agoGenerally speaking all companies are capable of stopping services at a whim, unless there are contractual obligations for otherwise. Singling out Google here isn't helpful unless there is a unique provision in their contract that others don't have. Also worth noting that gcp has over a decade of continuous service with no indication to think it should disappear any time soon. It's not clear why Google's consumer product strategies can be used to infer how their cloud products are run.
- johnisgood 2y agoI wonder why they chose not to use in-house tools instead. In any case, are there any documented instances of Google Cloud discontinuing service or terminating a client's hosting for <reasons>?
- jen20 2y agoBazel RBE and IOT Core come to mind.
- surajrmal 2y agoIf cloud providers could do whatever they want with their customers data, they wouldn't have any customers.
- johnisgood 2y ago> If cloud providers could do whatever they want with their customers data, they wouldn't have any customers. I disagree, but it depends on what we mean by "doing".
- einpoklum 2y agoAh, but it's not merely "hosting"; they're rewriting the code to fit Google Cloud, and possibly to depend on it.