[prepend]

I think it’s because GCP isn’t profitable and so they don’t want a loss leader for a product line that isn’t competitive with their other internal products.

Typically you don’t want loss leaders for things that aren’t strategic or very profitable.

Google is not a cloud company. So this is probably just reallocating resources toward more important things.

I bet if domains was a loss leader to AdWords it would stick around.

[jsnell]

Google Cloud reported profits in the last two quarters, and seems to be the thing they have been reallocating resources to this year, not from.

I think the reality is just that Google Domains was not (and never had been) a product of the Cloud organization and was not subject to their decision making process. But obviously that's not how anybody outside the company would have viewed it; they don't know the internal org charts nor care about them.

[tlogan]

I think this is the best and the most logical explanation.

[paganel]

> Typically you don’t want loss leaders for things that aren’t strategic or very profitable.

So does that mean that GCP itself is on the chopping block? I seem to remember a similar discussion regarding its future was in the air about 2-3 years ago.

[prepend]

I thought they would cut it years ago, but it’s sticking around.

It’s still a distant 3rd place, but it used to be fourth and seems to have doubled from 5-10% in the last 5 years. [0]

[0] https://techcrunch.com/2023/02/06/even-as-cloud-infrastructu...