[ignoramous]

> Google used to buy datacenters in stealth mode, under different companies created for that purpose, to avoid getting on Microsoft's radar and keeping how successful search was from them.

I believe, Google for a long time (and still does?) thought their infrastructure was the secret sauce, and that might have impeded them from competing with AWS in the early years (despite having all the pieces in place already)?

[Jugurtha]

There are apprehensions like these all over the place to protect their user base.

This matters to us because we're building our machine learning platform[0] and we want flexibility as opposed to using their machine learning products, because each considers themselves "the only cloud". Therefore, we're compelled to do "multi-cloud"[sigh], because we want to be able to train models on X, deploy on Y, and have data on Z.

It's funny to watch, though, as if I recall correctly, there was an article on one of these companies where saying "multi-cloud" was blasphematory.

- [0]: https://iko.ai