Those posts are an HN staple, this place wouldn't be the same without it. I think I've been using GCP longer than most people's projections of how long it would last.

If revenue is the only reason to choose a provider, we would all buy Oracle.

Only when they buy back their domains business from Squarespace.

Did you know the IBM cloud is the biggest in the world?

Public companies can structure their business however they prefer. If the story needs to be that Cloud is growing and profitable on a numbers sheet, you need no more than the finance geeks to make it happen.