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Google Brass Set 2023 as Deadline to Beat Amazon, Microsoft in Cloud

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Re: Google Brass Set 2023 as Deadline to Beat Amazon, Microsoft in Cloud

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Post by amiller2571 »

Scramblejams wrote: post #42

Ha! A year ago I steered away from GCP for a long-term personal project because I had a small but persistent worry that they'd shut it down, and switching clouds has a cost. I considered myself near-crazy for making the decision on that basis -- they wouldn't do that, would they?! that's silly! that's ridiculous! -- and was a little embarrassed to reveal my rationale to others. Saying it out loud sounded so alarmist,…

I no longer use any of Google's services and neither does my employer for this reason.

We did have one application running on their cloud, but decided to move it to aws because we just can't trust them to keep anything around. Every year we had to rebuild some part of our app, because they replaced or completely removed some feature we were using. It got old and we were done with it...

Re: Google Brass Set 2023 as Deadline to Beat Amazon, Microsoft in Cloud

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Post by bryanlarsen »

peteretep wrote: post #39
eddieh wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The headline seems to imply that Google will likely EOL Cloud if they don’t win in 3 years. That doesn’t instill confidence.

A CTO betting the farm on Google’s cloud is displaying reckless naivety. Google’s arrogance towards its customers is legendary.

We're on Google because we're not betting the farm on them or anyone else. Google has the best Kubernetes hosting, but using Kubernetes allows us to move if anything drastic changes.

Re: Google Brass Set 2023 as Deadline to Beat Amazon, Microsoft in Cloud

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Post by ianamartin »

clSTophEjUdRanu wrote: post #60

Would this also put a meta deadline on Stadia since, I assume, Stadia utilizes Google Cloud?

I imagine google will keep the technology around to support their own products. I read this to mean they will stop selling access to it.

Re: Google Brass Set 2023 as Deadline to Beat Amazon, Microsoft in Cloud

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Post by zerothOffset »

raiyu wrote: post #47
ocdtrekkie wrote: post #6

The Information is a fantastic source, and I subscribed to support the excellent original reporting that comes out of it. Most of the news will get disseminated by other blogs and news journals in the next day or so, but The Information is pretty good if you want tech news first. A big nugget from behind the paywall: "This person said the group’s leaders didn’t explicitly state what would happen to the cloud division…

I signed up to the information for the same reason. Plus they actually have their paywall well designed. I get most of my news from them via email and I can read it right in my phone's gmail, versus everything else that has me sign up somewhere and then re-login every time. I wouldn't mind paying if the experience was at least seamless post payment.

How much is the subscription? wonder if they have a student discount?

Re: Google Brass Set 2023 as Deadline to Beat Amazon, Microsoft in Cloud

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Post by harryh »

Despegar wrote: post #7

I couldn't help but laugh out loud when I saw this headline on Twitter. It's just kisses fingers . So now that everyone knows they are waffling on whether to stay in the business (and have a deadline), Microsoft and Amazon just need to increase the competitive intensity for the next few years to drive Google out and instead of cloud computing being an oligopoly it'll be a duopoly. If you're a startup you should serio…

If you're a startup you should seriously consider colocation for as many of your workloads as possible

The vast majority of startups do not succeed or fail based upon their ability to control their datacenter spend. They succeed or fail based upon their ability to attract customers and grow revenue. Colocating and managing your own servers instead of taking advantage of the ease of using the cloud will only be a distraction for almost all early stage companies.

Re: Google Brass Set 2023 as Deadline to Beat Amazon, Microsoft in Cloud

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Post by johnbellone »

hwbehrens wrote: post #37
nemothekid wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Who's number 3? Who am I missing?

Gartner ranked Aliyun as the third largest provider in 1Q19.

Gartner isn't a source that I'd use as a basis for it (or honestly, anything). I would take a look at annual revenue for all of these businesses.

Re: Google Brass Set 2023 as Deadline to Beat Amazon, Microsoft in Cloud

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Post by dralley »

mrosett wrote: post #38
Jyaif wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"That timeline was devised early last year, after an intense monthslong debate among senior leaders at Google and its parent company Alphabet over the future of the cloud business, a person with direct knowledge of the matter told The Information." Can't imagine a leak like that happening. This leak could very well have been planted by MS or Oracle to help them sell their own cloud to clients.

I think you underestimate how political Google has become internally.

The extent to which Google and Microsoft have switched places from where they were a decade ago is hilarious.

https://amp.businessinsider.com/images/50a25c45eab8ea8c41000...

Re: Google Brass Set 2023 as Deadline to Beat Amazon, Microsoft in Cloud

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Post by codyogden »

zerothOffset wrote: post #84
raiyu wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I signed up to the information for the same reason. Plus they actually have their paywall well designed. I get most of my news from them via email and I can read it right in my phone's gmail, versus everything else that has me sign up somewhere and then re-login every time. I wouldn't mind paying if the experience was at least seamless post payment.

How much is the subscription? wonder if they have a student discount?

They have a "under 30" plan.

http://thein.fo/youngpros

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