I don't fully disagree, but the only reason why this product is noteworthy is precisely because companies don't trust cloud providers with their data anymore. And while you might be able to prevent data exfiltration by monitoring the traffic patterns, you probably can't prevent sabotage that way.
Are you implying that Google will sell a product that is designed to ‘sabotage’ their own customer’s business? The legal and reputational damage far outweigh the value of stolen information.
Or do you mean that it could be a vector of attack? That can happen with literally any piece of software, hardware, or appliance you install in or out of your datacentre.
> Are you implying that Google will sell a product that is designed to ‘sabotage’ their own customer’s business?
The US government is constantly telling us that the likes of Huawei and Hikvision are doing precisely that, despite being subject to the same risks of reputational damage.
Of course, the same could be said of everything else in the data centre. It's not like Google are somehow more vulnerable than Juniper or Cisco or Unifi or Dell or Intel or whoever.
It's the same folks it always has been. Google is just trying to win those customer's business that would never have otherwise chosen Google. I'm sure these on prem solutions are not nearly as cost efficient as running the same workloads in Google data centers. Most companies would not pay that difference unless forced to via regulatory requirements.
That and there are various regulatory, political etc. reasons. Also I'm not sure about the "anymore" IMHO a lot more companies trust cloud providers with their data than they did 10-20 years ago .
