[tristram_shandy]

1. Every business that's running on GCE. They can't just "move off the service" in 30 days. This is a big one. Billions of dollars. Coca Cola obviously couldn't move in 30 days. Nor Airbus.

2. Every business that's running on GSuite. Let's assume this is mostly small business, and they will have limited ability to migrate to other SaaS or run in house replacements for these services.

3. Everyone who was using Youtube as a primary source of income, or whose business had a critical dependency on the Youtube platform for marketing

4. Every piece of code that depends on Google's DNS infrastructure, and anything that pulls DNS entries from 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4... how many devices like this do you think there are? How many were hard coded?

5. What happens to Android? It's a hypothetical, but potentially it could keep going, but let's assume major disruptions for everyone who runs a business that develops mobile applications for Android

6. How many people (and businesses) depend on Google Maps? How many are tied in directly to the API and won't be able to change this easily?

7. Now how many depend on Google Voice?

8. Gmail has more than 1 billion active monthly users.

I don't know if you're actually looking for a specific list of businesses, but that's not going to be possible for anyone to provide -- anyway, a shutdown of Google services would be an economic catastrophe... Most people couldn't even migrate a Gmail account in 30 days, and with Gmail alone we're already talking a billion+ people.

[ryandrake]

These all look like fixable problems, certainly not easily fixable, but also not on the level of "untold economic harm to the nation and world" and business collapse. My comment was that the parent was exaggerating, not that the loss wouldn't be temporarily painful to some companies.

[user5994461]

1. AWS and Azure

2. Outlook 365

3. Vimeo and Dailymotion

4. Every ISP provide DNS servers.

5. IOS

6. There are many alternative to google maps. Google didn't invented maps.

7. Noone?

8. There are many email service ready to take over.

There is nothing Google offers that can't be obtained from another provider.

And I'm not even getting into how Google has zero presence in Russia/China and its disappearance won't impact them.

[spinlock]

so .... if you can actually move a business from GCE to AWS in 30 days, will you please send me your resume? I'd like to hire you for a -- short -- contract :)

Seriously though, I think you're greatly underestimating how high the switching cost is to move from one cloud provider to another.