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Removing data transfer fees when moving off Google Cloud

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Re: Removing data transfer fees when moving off Google Cloud

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Post by ShakataGaNai »

That's a cool thing for them to do, an interesting business choice, but cool. It certainly helps the companies feel a little better about vendor lock-in, which is terribly plentiful in the cloud.

The TLDR is that when you tell them you want to cancel, you have 60 days to do so and during that time you'll have no egress fees. Makes sense.

Biggest problem though is... if you have a substantial amount of data or need to do a complex and seamless transition - this probably won't work for you. I would have to be on the DevOps team that's told to move a complicated and data-heavy application, and they only had 60 days to do so. Also the bulk of the data movement is, in my experience, one of the first steps of migration - not the last.

My hope is that, if nothing else, this will spur similar behaviors in other large cloud providers ::cough::aws::cough::.

Re: Removing data transfer fees when moving off Google Cloud

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Post by trhway »

seatac76 wrote: post #6

Getting ahead of antitrust I see. Big tech has gotten so big that we will now see this peace meal stuff being done to appease regulators to stave off any major action.

don't think so. Google is the distant 3rd in the Cloud, so hardly a subject to antitrust. It is more likely that failing hard on their goals for the Cloud set to that division about 3 years ago (and it was rumored that either they achieve the goals or it is "or else" for the Cloud division) they are starting the blame game whining about licensing/unfair competition/etc. (whereis they should blame only themselves as they would never bend over to the enterprise customer like say AWS would do who for example developed MS SQL (Transact SQL) interface to their own db - that is how you deal with the competition and software lock-in instead of whining (reminds that phrase from Babel - "that is why Benja is the king, while we are sitting on the cemetery fence"). In this case for example I remember how AWS was hunting down laid off Sybase (where T-SQL comes from) engineers whereis being an experienced enterprise software developer is viewed by Google is more like a disadvantage and results in meager offer (several my acquaintances had similar experience), so GCP losing enterprise game doesn't look that surprising to me. And now that enterprise customers are starting to add huge AI related workloads the GCP is hardly ever mentioned)

Re: Removing data transfer fees when moving off Google Cloud

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Post by kaonwarb »

seatac76 wrote: post #6

Getting ahead of antitrust I see. Big tech has gotten so big that we will now see this peace meal stuff being done to appease regulators to stave off any major action.

Google Cloud has ~10% market share; I don't think this is an antitrust avoidance play. More likely, it's removing a concern companies might have with bringing workloads onto a relatively smaller player. Especially one that has a history of discontinuing products.

Re: Removing data transfer fees when moving off Google Cloud

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Post by SteveNuts »

loosescrews wrote: post #4

> Certain legacy providers leverage their on-premises software monopolies to create cloud monopolies, using restrictive licensing practices that lock in customers and warp competition. I like to see them publicly call out Microsoft and Oracle.

I think the "Legacy" and "licensing" portions are specifically calling out MS and Oracle, but they very sneakily are calling AWS out too on the fact that egress makes it insanely expensive to leave their platform.

I've worked at some orgs where to either move their data out of S3 would cost $20k, or to even delete it would cost thousands in API calls.

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