[dehrmann]

Google's biggest business failing around that era was how far behind they were in cloud computing. GCE only launched in 2013. EC2 launched 2007-ish. In 2014, unless you were paying attention to Amazon, it wasn't obvious how big of a blunder this was, yet.

[6gvONxR4sf7o]

I feel like in 2014, at least in my circles, AWS was already a behemoth.

[ignoramous]

> EC2 launched 2007-ish

Aug 2006: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AWS#History

[golergka]

I'm pretty sure that they had app engine in 2010, I was building a company on it then. Or does it not count as cloud computing?

[khazhoux]

App Engine team was maybe a 5-10 engineers. It wanted to be the next Heroku, whereas AWS aimed to be the infrastructure for all the world's software.

[dehrmann]

They did, but I called out GCE because you're not a serious cloud provider without (virtual) machines you can do what you want with.