[curiousmindz]

I'm surprised that GCP is claimed to have less than the third of Azure's market share. And AWS is still comfortably in first place.

It also depends a lot on how they count these market shares. Once we go past the basic renting of CPU/Disk, it gets tricky: How far is a service still considered as part of the "cloud market". For example, renting a virtual machine to use as a desktop-in-the-cloud would count, but what about 'renting' a machine to play games? (Like with Xbox, Luna or Stadia) Same question with productivity/office services.

[byoung2]

I'm surprised that GCP is claimed to have less than the third of Azure's market share. And AWS is still comfortably in first place.

It is amazing how much the first-mover advantage helped AWS. I signed up for AWS in 2009 after trying GoGrid and Rackspace Cloud and just never looked at any others later on. Just this week I tried GCP and I like it much better. And Azure has a nicer geographical footprint.

[sam_bristow]

I've also heard a lot of people state that they have trust issues with GCP given Google's history of cancelling consumer facing products.

[Grazester]

People actually think Google is going to just close shop on something like this? Has Google ever closed a big service that had real paying customers?

[partido3619463]

They shut down services with more rapid end dates than AWS. Also they leave many useful services in beta forever and then use that to justify shutting them down.

[davidgerard]

yep. Amazon is obsessive about customer service, and Google just isn't really.