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Alphabet earnings show Google Cloud on $10B run rate

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Re: Alphabet earnings show Google Cloud on $10B run rate

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rat9988 wrote: post #121
dangus wrote: post #117

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Do you have any experience with GCP as an enterprise customer compared to AWS or Azure? Is GSuite or GCP support any worse or are you just assuming those experiences are the same as what you get with a free GMail account? I mean, what kind of support does a small business with two EC2 Instances or three Office 365 licenses really get? I can’t imagine you get to call someone and get in-depth technical help for free. I…

You failed to read his point. He is talking about their reputation, not whatever-happens-in-practice.

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Re: Alphabet earnings show Google Cloud on $10B run rate

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rat9988 wrote: post #121
dangus wrote: post #117

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you have any experience with GCP as an enterprise customer compared to AWS or Azure? Is GSuite or GCP support any worse or are you just assuming those experiences are the same as what you get with a free GMail account? I mean, what kind of support does a small business with two EC2 Instances or three Office 365 licenses really get? I can’t imagine you get to call someone and get in-depth technical help for free. I…

You failed to read his point. He is talking about their reputation, not whatever-happens-in-practice.

My point was that their reliance on reputation was misguided, especially in the case of a large conglomerate with many business units targeting consumers and businesses separately.

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Post by mlazos »

scarface74 wrote: post #25
mlazos wrote: post #9

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Yeah I find it interesting that all of the cloud providers do this when in reality it benefits microsoft the most, since they make the most money from their office suite

Office 365 is not counted in cloud revenue. https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-q1-2020-earnings-reven...

Lol I work at ms and got this wrong, oops! I think this is a recent occurrence though right?

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Post by arcticfox »

rudolph9 wrote: post #161

kubernetes on google cloud rocks. If they kill gcp like they do with other random services I’ll cross that bridge when I come to it, kubernetes is open source and there are lots of other provider. For now, I don’t feel trapped in the least, it’s a great serive, it’s priced right, and the time I save not dealing with AWS nonsense far out weighs the potential downsides of using their services.

Cloud Run is so freaking cool too, and it's a nice combination of totally hosted and totally portable (since you can just run it on k8s if GCP dies)

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Post by IshKebab »

ApolloFortyNine wrote: post #50
IshKebab wrote: post #44

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The law says that you must give free consent . Saying "we'll track you or else... (go away / pay up)" is arguable not free. It doesn't really matter though because literally nobody it enforcing this part of the GDPR.

I believe people have gotten pretty good about auto accepting anything, in no small part due to the 'hey, just wanted to let you know we use cookies, like every other website on the planet!'. But if people really did overwhelmingly say no, I just see no way for most of the internet to exist. You get overwhelmingly less per click/impression for 'dumb ads,' and news sites have already had to resort to click bait today.…

Sites that rely on tracking to generate targetted ads might not exist. There are still plenty of sites that don't depend on ads, or get sufficient context without tracking. E.g. a car enthusiast forum doesn't exactly need tracking to know it should show car adverts.

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Post by morerunes »

vikramkr wrote: post #168
morerunes wrote: post #142

I hate to be that guy, but why is it called Butt services?

Because you installed that one extension that changes cloud to butt a while back as a joke and apparently somehow forgot you did.

Bahahaha I've been pranked! Either by a coworker or possibly myself.
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