[23B1]

We've had multiple multi-cloud customers signal a desire to move away from GCP for years now because savvy CXOs are just fed up with the unreliability. When you're looking to resolve a ton of tech debt that you have because of the ground constantly shifting beneath your feet for 1-2 decades... well, you just get fed up and want the reliability of serious enterprise vendors.

It makes innovation much harder due to the downstream effects, but at least I'm not carrying more and more risk forward thanks to Google/Alphabet's ADHD approach to product, brand, and support.

[dividedbyzero]

What exactly do you mean by unreliability?

[js4ever]

Probably the constant deprecation of API / SDK from Google, you have to keep up with their crazy deprecation policy. On the other side I still have some APPS calling AWS API since 10y without any issues.

[23B1]

"When will Alphabet opaquely and unilaterally depreciate this product upon which we've come to rely, as they do with many other products all the time?"

Alphabet is a hopelessly disorganized bureaucracy whose leadership appears, at best indifferent to customer needs, at worst hostile to customers that don't toe their line.

It's just a risk calculation you have to make when you're spending millions to build systems of record upon which your enterprise will depend for years to come.

I don't know if its fair or even accurate – but it's the feedback I get from client CTOs and CIOs at sizable companies.

[chias]

Not having to ask "will the product I rely on today exist tomorrow?"