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I don't think he's being ignored. Take a look here: https://cloud.google.com/ And here: https://console.developers.google.com/project Also the open-source releases of Bazel[1] and gRPC[2] indicate that there's a lot more coming in this direction. [1] http://bazel.io/ [2] http://www.grpc.io/
You seem to have linked to Google's slightly inferior, copycat cloud offering. I read Steve's rant as a cri de coeur not for an AWS-style infrastructure as was relevant and genre-busting at the time of the essay's inception, but for Google to stop following slowly with slightly inferior, copycat versions of other people's grand ideas and expecting anything good to happen out of it. Granted, Google has some pretty gre…
It takes time to move the needle. Google has probably the best infrastructure in the world, but it was designed for Google's problems, tightly intertwined with the products it supports, and built for a different performance/productivity trade-off than most independent customers are willing to put up with. Even now, GCE beats EC2 on price/performance metrics, it just lacks some of the conveniences that AWS users expect.