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Re:Google Brass Set 2023 as Deadline to Beat Amazon, Microso... by scarface74 on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @12:58PM (#21816397)
Google is far from the world’s “third largest provider”

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/public-cloud-market-sha...

As far as the manager “being on the chopping block” the article talks about “losing funding”.

$8 billion in revenue means nothing. Is it profitable?

This is the same company that left an entire city’s streets in disarray after abandoning Google Fiber.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/02/googl...

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Re:Google Brass Set 2023 as Deadline to Beat Amazon, Microso... by rumanator on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @02:22PM (#21817580)
> Google is far from the world’s “third largest provider”

You're being a bit disingenuous. Your own source states quite clearly that Google is in the 3rd spot and arguably, if you cherry-pick results, you can place it in 4th.

By cherry-picked results I'm referring to posting 2018 results and ignoring how GCP's revenue doubled in the last 18 months, nearly matching Azure's revenue.

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Re:Google Brass Set 2023 as Deadline to Beat Amazon, Microso... by scarface74 on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @02:31PM (#21817686)
So let’s look at the raw marketshare. It’s 10% of AWS.

Also revenue != profit. If it was profitable enough would management be complaining?

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Re:Google Brass Set 2023 as Deadline to Beat Amazon, Microso... by rumanator on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @06:28PM (#21820165)
> So let’s look at the raw marketshare. It’s 10% of AWS.

Yes, AWS is 1st. What's your point? Azure is 2nd and GCP is currently 3rd and catching up with Azure. What does AWS has to do with whether GCP is 3rd or 4th?

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Re:Google Brass Set 2023 as Deadline to Beat Amazon, Microso... by bananabreakfast on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @01:14PM (#21816640)
Jesus, talk about hyperbole. "Far"? Trailing a couple percent behind Alibaba, a chinese only hosting provider? Get real
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Re:Google Brass Set 2023 as Deadline to Beat Amazon, Microso... by ShinTakuya on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @03:05PM (#21818132)
Alibaba operates and serves internationally.
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Re:Google Brass Set 2023 as Deadline to Beat Amazon, Microso... by scarface74 on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @01:41PM (#21817022)
Let’s take the raw numbers then. 4.8% compared to 47%.
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Re:Google Brass Set 2023 as Deadline to Beat Amazon, Microso... by jhoechtl on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @04:13PM (#21818909)
At what growth rate?
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Re:Google Brass Set 2023 as Deadline to Beat Amazon, Microso... by scarface74 on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @04:34PM (#21819121)
Not high enough for management obviously. Also, is it growing profitably.
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