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It’s definitely interesting seeing a service provider place restrictions like that. It seems bad for business, unless business isn’t really the point?

I would say if you want to be a provider, be a provider, don’t treat your customers like potential enemies.

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In a world where AWS runs a direct competitor of Amazon - Netflix, I can't imagine how Google can get away with something like this.

To be fair, Amazon has a way of eventually becoming a direct competitor of many of the companies they initially present themselves as a middle man for.

But they don't say you can't run such competing products on their cloud right.

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