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OTOH, Google doesn’t like to invest big money in businesses that aren’t on track to be big. From just nine months ago:

“Google Brass Set 2023 as Deadline to Beat Amazon, Microsoft in Cloud”

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21815260

That is the exact thread I have a comment in from ~9 months ago. Anyone thinking that Google is going to shut down 24 physical datacenter regions spread all around the world if they're not #1 in the cloud market in 3 years is insane. The cloud market is multi billion dollar business and is only going to continue growing (even moreso now in the last ~9 months thanks to COVID). It isn't a free RSS aggregator that isn't maintained anymore and thus going to be sundowned.

The funny thing is, I had a pitch by Azure to convince us to switch from GCP.

And they point blank said that Google is not investing into GCP and implied that it's on a death bed.

LOL

Sounds like their salesman needs to work a little harder on his pitch. :)

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