[buahahaha]

Getting out of the business of having their own?

[dward]

With Alibaba cloud, infrastructure like databases is their business. Take AWS Aurora and GCP Spanner as examples.

[andreasklinger]

But it's also easier to sell a standard DB people already know vs a custom

(see (google) Bigtable vs (amazon) Postgres)

[aoeusnth1]

Those aren't exactly comparable products - also, is it obvious which one sells better? Is it well known that amazon postgres sells like hotcakes?

[darkr]

Odd comparison, Google has supported MySQL for a long time, as has AWS.

Dynamo might be a slightly closer comparison

[dward]

Google Cloud SQL supports postgres as well.

[andreasklinger]

that's kind of my point

databases people know and use already (eg in fun projects) are easier to sell

[ngrilly]

Google Cloud SQL and AWS RDS now both support PostgreSQL.