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by re-thc 1092 days ago
> but it seems to me that GCP is behind both AWS and Azure in terms of dev mindshare

AWS has 1st mover advantage and the biggest ecosystem.

Azure has Microsoft behind it = everyone that used Office, Sharepoint, SQL Server, C#, etc that wanted to move to the cloud.

Google doesn't have such a backing. Oracle cloud (huge growth) might be stronger in that sense.
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iainmerrick 1092 days ago
I agree, but it’s surprising that things are that way, especially as they’re not short of cash. If they have this big tech edge over their competitors, where’s the benefit?
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re-thc 1092 days ago
> If they have this big tech edge over their competitors, where’s the benefit?

Most of it is behind huge paywalls compared to their competitors. There's e.g. no serverless version of spanner that is pay-per-usage. Same with Big Table. Even the newly released AlloyDB has a huge starting cost.

If no 1 knows and no 1 can feel for the advantage it doesn't really help.

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