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Re:Amazon has long ruled the cloud – now it must fend off ri... by scarface74 on Sunday January 05, 2020 @08:07PM (#21965583)
You’ve just kind of described the problem with GCP. It doesn’t matter how technically good they are if they don’t have good Enterprise support and they have no ability to meet the enterprise customer where they are.

The first step of a major cloud migration is often a combination of hybrid solutions and lift and shifts.

Revenue is inconsequential. What is there profit? Cloud is profitable for AWS and MS. We don’t know what the margins are for GCP.

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Re:Amazon has long ruled the cloud – now it must fend off ri... by crazygringo on Sunday January 05, 2020 @08:20PM (#21965645)
I don't know what you're talking about. By all accounts, GCP enterprise support is perfectly fine. Why do you think it isn't? Again, it's not consumer Gmail or YouTube accounts. Major companies wouldn't be signing contracts with them if they didn't.

And in what universe is revenue inconsequential? Profit comes whenever you want to stop investing in growing. There is zero reason to believe that Google will be unable to turn a profit off GCP whenever it decides to. Particularly given that it was building datacenters for Search before AWS even existed.

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Re:Amazon has long ruled the cloud – now it must fend off ri... by AzzieElbab on Monday January 06, 2020 @06:47AM (#21968394)
The perception comes from consumer products.
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Re:Amazon has long ruled the cloud – now it must fend off ri... by scarface74 on Sunday January 05, 2020 @10:05PM (#21966090)
Profit comes whenever your costs are less than your revenue.

GCP and Google are completely different. Nothing except a few inconsequential internal Google apps run on GCP.

Building servers and knowing how to address the needs of the enterprise are completely orthogonal.

Sorry the only citation I have is a podcast.

https://overcast.fm/+RWDUSvtD8

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