Google Cloud Spanner is now half the cost of Amazon DynamoDB

Re:Google Cloud Spanner is now half the cost of Amazon DynamoDB by dchest on Wednesday October 11, 2023 @03:37PM (#37849250)

"Organizations of all sizes and across all industries are increasingly looking to accelerate digital transformation and power AI-driven innovation."

How did Google become like this?

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Re:Google Cloud Spanner is now half the cost of Amazon DynamoDB by layer8 on Wednesday October 11, 2023 @03:49PM (#37849399)

Money.

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Re:Google Cloud Spanner is now half the cost of Amazon DynamoDB by kccqzy on Wednesday October 11, 2023 @03:58PM (#37849506)

The new leadership under Cloud that chases buzzwords.

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Re:Google Cloud Spanner is now half the cost of Amazon DynamoDB by holografix on Wednesday October 11, 2023 @04:27PM (#37849843)

By hiring VMWare, Dell and Oracle people

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Re:Google Cloud Spanner is now half the cost of Amazon DynamoDB by who-le-o on Wednesday October 11, 2023 @04:35PM (#37849925)

Chances are you're not the audience and some exec is

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Re:Google Cloud Spanner is now half the cost of Amazon DynamoDB by Havoc on Wednesday October 11, 2023 @04:50PM (#37850091)

All corporate-y? By becoming a big corporation

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Re:Google Cloud Spanner is now half the cost of Amazon DynamoDB by jdmg94 on Wednesday October 11, 2023 @05:06PM (#37850258)

They removed that line about not being evil

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Re:Google Cloud Spanner is now half the cost of Amazon DynamoDB by michellegienow on Thursday October 12, 2023 @10:14AM (#37857473)

^^^ this

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Re:Google Cloud Spanner is now half the cost of Amazon DynamoDB by oars on Wednesday October 11, 2023 @05:29PM (#37850490)

Google Cloud's current CEO spent 22 years at Oracle before taking this role.

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Re:Google Cloud Spanner is now half the cost of Amazon DynamoDB by hot_gril on Wednesday October 11, 2023 @06:47PM (#37851355)

Cloud services rely a ton on marketing, B2B relations, and customer support. Google has never exactly been about that stuff, and GCP was suffering. So they pulled in Oracle, MSFT, etc execs, which lame as that sounds was probably the right move for GCP in particular.

And I guess this is the kind of marketing that attracts the customers they want.

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