[dehrmann]

I worked for two shops that migrated to GCP, one from leased space in DCs, one from AWS.

> Seems like it would be risky for companies to switch to Google Cloud because it might end up in the graveyard.

Yeah, there's definitely that risk, and in one of those cases, I disagreed with the move because of it.

That said, depending on what you're doing, GCP's key-value store (BigTable) and analytical DB (BigQuery) struck me as technically more sound than the AWS versions (DynamoDB, Redshift/Athena). As an ecosystem, AWS was far superior, there are more offerings, and they tend to have more features. It's just that they're most likely a managed version of an open-source project.

One place moved specifically because of BigTable. They were on HBase (and not happy with it), so it was the least painful migration option.