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Re:Google Cloud Worth $225B, Deutsche Bank Says by IshKebab on Friday October 04, 2019 @01:06PM (#21159653)
I'd say it was wrong. Amazon and Microsoft now make huge amounts of money from their clouds. It can't be that low margin!

But I feel like their real mistake was trying to do things right, rather than compatibly. I think Google Cloud Engine is undeniably a better system than ad-hoc Linux VMs. But nobody really wants to rewrite all their code to work with it.

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Re:Google Cloud Worth $225B, Deutsche Bank Says by gowld on Friday October 04, 2019 @01:50PM (#21160135)
Google Compute Engine offers ad-hoc VMs. Google (and Amazon) have many offerings.
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Re:Google Cloud Worth $225B, Deutsche Bank Says by IshKebab on Friday October 04, 2019 @03:52PM (#21161286)
Yes they do now because they eventually realised that they had to. But for 5 years (2008-2013) Google App Engine was their only offering.
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