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Re:Wal-Mart is telling some vendors they can’t run applicati... by JPKab on Thursday June 22, 2017 @10:50AM (#14612609)
Just to be clear, there is nothing new here.

I did retail data analytics on behalf of large CPG companies with their Walmart, Target, Costco data for a few years. Walmart made it very, very clear for several years now that their sales/inventory data, and any apps the vendors build using it, couldn't be on AWS.

It made things very challenging for us, because Azure is too expensive and Google Cloud (especially at the time) lacked support that wasn't absolute shit.

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Re:Wal-Mart is telling some vendors they can’t run applicati... by vgt on Friday June 23, 2017 @12:44PM (#14620535)
Googler here. I apologize if you had a bad experience with Google support. We've had various tiers of support, all the way up to dedicated engineers. Can you please share your viewpoint here, or your experiences?
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