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Re:Google cuts jobs at cloud-computing group by dewey on Saturday February 15, 2020 @05:34AM (#22334453)
> shutdown its cloud division seems more and more likely to happen

That seems extremely unlikely, the products that Google shuts down from time to time are usually not products that make money. GCP is a whole different beast with SLAs, paying customers, huge corporations using it. It also wouldn't make sense to give up the position as one of the few big cloud hosters.

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Re:Google cuts jobs at cloud-computing group by ximaera on Saturday February 15, 2020 @07:25AM (#22334839)
They say that's set to be decided in or around 2023 one way or another.

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/google-brass-set-202...

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Re:Google cuts jobs at cloud-computing group by PrivateRepo on Saturday February 15, 2020 @06:21AM (#22334609)
It will start making sense when Google stops shelling out a comparatively-high level of free credits for every new deal. They’re subsidizing their own users to game market share numbers, and at some point the funding to do this will have slow (unless they find out that it actually converts evals to year over year clients).
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Re:Google cuts jobs at cloud-computing group by ldoughty on Saturday February 15, 2020 @07:03AM (#22334747)
Our start up got a 6 figure AWS credit with 3 year expiration date... I'd say AWS does the same
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