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It serves companies like checks notes Google, Apple, Spotify. I think it works just fine.

As for anecdata, the only cloud platform I've heard nothing positive is Azure.

GCP runs on Google, Google doesn’t run on GCP.

+ Twitter and Snapchat

> Twitter

Except the most important part of Twitter -- timelines, of course. [1]

> Snapchat

Except the $1 billion contract from AWS, of course. [2]

That doesn't mean GCP is bad unless they totally switched to AWS. I believe this is just part of multi cloud approach.

If AWS is running 100% of timelines it's not a "multi cloud approach". AWS is the bedrock of the entire Twitter experience.

Multi cloud means cross cloud redundancy, but there's none of that here.