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by campers 3748 days ago
Its more catch-up than an exodus, but also overtaking in some ways. Short version I'd say pricing and data processing (DataFlow, DataProc and especially BigQuery) Their core network infrastructure is more advanced, and Live Migration is pretty nice too.

Long version the recent posts of Spotify and Quizlet’s moves to GCP dive deep into their reasons why.

https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/02/Spotify-chooses...

https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/03/free-online-lea...