[bhouston]

K8S is the commoditization of of Amazon's compute infrastructure. This standardizes it and makes it easier to switch and to build vendor independent tooling around it. Of course the strategy of AWS now at least be the first two parts of the old Microsoft strategy with regards to open standards: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis... (Hopefully not the third part.)

There is still lots that Amazon does that is unique and proprietary. And it has tons of respect in the industry.

But as more becomes standardized on Kubernetes and more becomes automated via Service Providers, it will make further commoditize the market.

Google needs to do the following: - Better CDN that can work with any origin. - Work hard on getting Service Providers/Service Catalog into Kubernetes with all the latest Google Services (it is very patchy support at the moment.) - Buy Gitlab and support the shit out of it -- that is one great product.

[O_H_E]

IDK about Gitlab. Google has the worse reputation about keeping products alive. That reputation along with the privacy reputation is going to drive adopters away, especially the ones who are not using GitHub because of Microsoft.