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Re:Bank of America's CEO says it's saved $2B per year by bui... by toomuchtodo on Monday October 21, 2019 @01:12PM (#21314692)
It's not just capital or talent. I have seen first hand non-tech executive decision makers pick a specific cloud provider because of the old adage "No one got fired for buying IBM". That momentum is incredibly hard to compete against. Google Cloud is fairly solid from a technology perspective, not to mention Google's deep pockets, and still has an uphill climb against MS and AWS.
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Re:Bank of America's CEO says it's saved $2B per year by bui... by scarface74 on Monday October 21, 2019 @01:49PM (#21315140)
GCP may be just as good technologically, but their customer support and especially enterprise support is piss poor.
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Re:Bank of America's CEO says it's saved $2B per year by bui... by castlecrasher2 on Monday October 21, 2019 @02:34PM (#21315648)
Not directly a response to you, but GCP is actually phenomenal in some areas over AWS: BigQuery, Data Studio (I know it's not really "GCP" but vs AWS' offering), and Pubsub come to mind.

Oddly enough, they falter in other areas: no equivalent to Kinesis Firehose, and true to your point, I was told by customer service just to build my own DataFlow job to take a Pubsub topic and make files.

It's like some of their product managers have a very customer-first mindset (BigQuery, Pubsub) and some could not care less.

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Re:Bank of America's CEO says it's saved $2B per year by bui... by justesjc on Monday October 21, 2019 @02:07PM (#21315331)
Some would say, non-existent.
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Re:Bank of America's CEO says it's saved $2B per year by bui... by sgt101 on Monday October 21, 2019 @03:59PM (#21316594)
Their model is third party partners.
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