But it's difficult to set up a business when your baseline is "Google Ads".
I thought they have it with Cloud. I'm still puzzled how it went wrong.
People at companies like this are only provoked to action by what affects company revenue, whether increasing it or preventing loss. And hardly anything can be demonstrated to have direct effect on revenue. (Certainly, unhappy users don't, as Microsoft was first to discover.)
... you do realize that goes for 99% of people posting here? In my biased experience in consulting for ~4 years, the distribution is more like 80/10/10 for AWS/GCP/Azure.
gcp has a lot of business continuity guarantees.
still, I don't recommend them. because google acts like a dangerous savant at this point.
If you look at stadia, they built the cool streaming platform, but failed to actually sell it.