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It's doubtful that they could directly compete as is. Amazon has done well with their services because they eat their own dog food. From everything I read Bezos basically forced them to build this system and consume it for Amazon's own needs. Google has never taken this approach with their APIs and the difference shows very clearly when you consume these products.

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I assume you're referencing stevey's rant, and if so you're conflating two issues. Steve was talking about the use of APIs between services at the application level, not the API for the datacenter/cloud as a platform.

I think cr is talking about how you get "baby bigtable" and "baby cloudscale" that are copies of internal services, but not what core platforms use themselves.

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