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Re:Twitter migrates data to Google Cloud by omeid2 on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @02:38AM (#18976435)
It is interesting point to bring up but nonetheless discount pricing is not out of question.

It is possible that while GCP gives a good value based on the writing on the tin, someone else might beat that with a good margin under special terms.

That being said, I have reasons to think very few could beat Google on compute or storage game and definitely much harder to beat the big G on Networking side of things.

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Re:Twitter migrates data to Google Cloud by jkaplowitz on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @08:55AM (#18978080)
Companies like Twitter would get a significant discount from any provider, though I imagine AWS as market leader would have less incentive than GCP to go quite as deep.

Disclosure: I worked for GCP until early 2015, but I haven't worked for Google since then, have no inside info on this deal and am not relying on anything from my time at Google for this comment.

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