[blakesterz]

I don't know how many others think like I do, but I'd never use GCP. No one will ever convince me that it'll be around in 5 years. I just don't trust them to keep anything they made in the past decade or so going long term. Call me paranoid, call me whatever you want, but I just do not trust their ability to focus on anything anymore.

[guyzero]

GCP is making 10-year sales deals, so it better be around in 5 years.

https://redmonk.com/jgovernor/2020/07/31/google-clouds-expan...

"GCP has recently announced a number of ten year transactions including wins at Deutsche Bank, Mayo Clinic, and Sabre."

[losteric]

GCP is a profit center and diversifies the business, why would Alphabet deprecate it?

[evilos]

According to top comment it loses money?

> Lost $890m this quarter compared to $1.2B Q4 2020

[onlyrealcuzzo]

It's growing 45% per year. In 3 years - the profits of Cloud alone could be bigger than all but a few companies in the world.

[genousti]

If at some point it hinders their main biz (ads) they will. Just like they did with rss

[murderfs]

Ah, yes, everyone knows that Google killed their highly profitable product in Google Reader to push ads somehow.

[ramoz]

Google will have stake in the game.

https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/google-to-migrate...