If the shit hits the fan... I need to guarantees, that as few things as possible could have caused it, and that I can get it fixed as fast as possible.
Google does too much, my accounts are too connected, they associate things to deeply. I can't trust them with my business.
With AWS the only way it stops is I told it to, or there was a billing issue. And if there was an issue, I had it fixed in under 15 minutes with one phone call. Google has yet to even try and give me that kind of experience in ANY aspect of their commercial services that I've paid for as. a customer.
Last but not least Google has a super bad reputation when it comes to people's privacy, which many developers care a lot about.
Citation needed. Google has a pretty high reputation for privacy. They implement almost all industry best practices.
- Details of Google's own network (July 2015) [0]
- Some more on reach of Google's network [1]
- Recently publishes security principles paper [2]
- A talk by Urs [3]
- Some customer stories, including folks comparing various cloud providers' networks [4]
[0] https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2015/06/A-Look-Inside-G...
[1] https://youtu.be/n9QtOyp4Mms?t=23m38s
[2] https://cloud.google.com/security/whitepaper
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4lqANaOqVo&index=2&list=PLI...
[4] https://medium.com/google-cloud/i-think-google-cloud-is-the-...
(work at Google Cloud)
IMHO, from what I've seen of GCP's performance last year, it's still far behind AWS in terms of reliability.
Google seems to brag about financial incompetence when it comes to "other" projects.
If those statements are what you use to reason your way about why AWS was first it can make sense. Though if that's the real reason it's hard to say.