Who would trust Google with their infrastructure these days anyway? Personally I do need to work with Google services occasionally but always experience default anxiety about it.
We run our company on Google Cloud, spending about $400k a year on it. I previously worked heavily with AWS. From a technical perspective Gcloud is pretty great.
People's saltiness about the consumer/advertising side of Google having killed their favorite free product is pretty irrelevant in this context.
I wouldn’t say irrelevant as this is free service as well and same people are making decisions in upper management. There is always a catch and they don’t make anything if it is not bringing more revenue.
This is a free feature on GCP. Many features on GCP are free because they're bundled into the pricing.
> same people are making decisions in upper management.
That's not true. Google Cloud has its own CEO and a very different business model.
> they don’t make anything if it is not bringing more revenue.
Sure - they're a for-profit business. Google Cloud's revenue was $13bn in 2020, and as of last quarter it had a run rate of $22 bn. That money comes direct from paying customers. The business model of the consumer/ad side really is irrelevant here.
This line of reasoning is stupid. Are you saying that because Google killer unused consumer product X, they are going to shoot their cloud business in the head? Why? Do you not understand the difference between b2b and b2c?
Is GCP profitable? Somebody else in the comments pointed out that GCP is actually losing money and needs to be subsidized by Google's ad revenue, thus making Alphabet immensely influential.
I think my comment was conflated with others' sentiments about Google killing their RSS reader and other products. That is not my rationale at all. My hesitance for using Google Cloud or AWS stems from my mistrust of these behemoths and their track record of baseless censorship. From what I have seen, both of these companies have stepped out of their place as neutral platforms.
I understand not all large companies have the luxury of picking their service providers but I do believe it's in everyone's best interest to diversify web service infrastructure. One, to hedge against catastrophic failures that may arise from their platform going down and two, to better balance the distribution of power on the internet as a whole.
