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It would be pretty impressive to launch a public cloud I would trust even less than GCP :D

GCP got this reputation because it’s a second class citizen within Google. Google’s own internal infra (Borg, Blaze) is top-notch.

If Meta can pull off the public cloud correctly, I’d trust them greatly - they’ve shown significant engineering and product competence till now, even if they could use some more consistent and stable UI.

Dont all new projects go to gcp within google?

Yeah at this stage it doesn't make sense to have two tiers within Google.

Depends on what you mean by new. None of the new features for the mature product I work on have touched it.

To the side I have had GCP work but it’s been isolated and as if I were moonlighting.

A lot of Fortune 50 companies compete in some way with Microsoft, Amazon, and Google so are reluctant to use their services. I think Meta has the benefit of less corporate competition

Anyway in that context, you don't need trust when you have a sufficiently large legal department

I doubt there is a single Fortune 50 company that doesn't use one (or more) of the top 3 clouds.

I mean, Netflix and Apple even use public clouds quite heavily.

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