Google Cloud lost $5.61B on $13.06B revenue last year

Re:Google Cloud lost $5.61B on $13.06B revenue last year by silexia on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @05:35PM (#26007945)

Google has a reputation issue here: no one wants to build serious products on it's platforms since it killed so many products in the past.

Legacy support sucks, but if you don't support your old products people won't trust your new ones.

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Re:Google Cloud lost $5.61B on $13.06B revenue last year by anonacct38 on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @06:09PM (#26008330)

They do have a reputation issue, and it does cost them some business. There are CTOs who basically won't touch a google product in beta because there are so many things that get pulled.

That being said they are good at running vms and storage. They are really good at running kubernetes. Their network is amazing.

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Re:Google Cloud lost $5.61B on $13.06B revenue last year by kevincox on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @06:29PM (#26008566)

> There are CTOs who basically won't touch a google product in beta because there are so many things that get pulled.

That is literally the point of calling it beta and why beta Google Cloud products have a different deprecation policy.

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Re:Google Cloud lost $5.61B on $13.06B revenue last year by cett on Wednesday February 03, 2021 @01:06AM (#26011056)

I would find it hard to take a CTO seriously who can't differentiate between beta and "generally available", or consumer product and enterprise cloud product.

It's a bit like saying you wouldn't use AWS because of Fire Phone.

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