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> Anthos is a subscription-based service, with the list prices starting at $10,000/month per 100 vCPU block. Enterprise prices then to be up for negotiation, though, so many customers will likely pay less.

> Google will offer a single managed service that will let you manage and deploy workloads across clouds [...] This is Google, after all, managing your applications for you on AWS and Azure

from: https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/09/googles-anthos-hybrid-clou...

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All the pages have "Contact Sales" as the first call to action.

which is code for "This isn't for you! You can't afford this! Go away!"

"If you have to ask the price, you can't afford it."

Not to mention that it requires other licenses and hardware to work in the first place, so your total licensing cost is quite a bit higher than that:

"What's required to run Anthos? Anthos has multiple components. Among these, running GKE On-Prem requires vCenter 6.5 in order to create VMs for the GKE On-Prem cluster. Additionally, GKE On-Prem integrates with F5 BIG-IP load balancers in order to provide layer 4 load balancing."

At least AWS Outposts and Azure Stack include all the hardware and all the licenses in the box.

lol, guess their new CEO did use the "Oracle Playbook" as he promised...

Their new CEO is an unmitigated disaster. Either he will have to change his ways or he will be leaving very very soon.

Lol. I was wondering why there was no download link.

I wonder why they make things so crazy expensive or aren’t upfront about enterprise / volume pricing.

Sometimes things are negotiable, and if you list a price, it could be a turnoff for a potential (usually large) customer.

Like if you see that something costs $X, and you can only afford $Y, you might not even bother with it.

But if you talk with them they might be able to work within your budget.

But of course, when you do that, it's a clear sign you're targeting large clients/contracts, so your smaller customers won't want to bother with it.

GCP is scaling up a huge outside sales org (expensive). That means any propsect that's not an enterprise is not worth going after. Easy to weed out the medium and small businesses if you are upfront about a minimum 10k/month commitment.

I don't know – AWS has done fine with relatively transparent pricing. Telling folks you must spend $1,200 a year per vCPU for a software management layer seems ill conceived.

AWS runs a different sales model. They are much more balanced inside vs outside sales. They have inbound marketing and actively target businesses of all sizes. Inside sales is cheaper and can support smaller customers. I can tell you, AWS is not sending an experienced field rep to visit your one-man basement-built mobile app startup.

Enterprise customers have a very different idea of what crazy expensive is... if this means we have to hire one less person to run ops, this is a cost savings.

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