[chii]

i would say that smaller, independent enterprises/solo shops tend to not hate GCP.

Large shops - aka, a shop where you're not part of the controlling entity - tend to prefer either AWS, or Azure depending on how hard the CIO got wined and dined previously (and existing inertia - older shops that used AWS as an early adopter seems to stay with AWS).

> Their UX is not great though

i agree, but nobody really cares enough. On the other hand, i'd not pay more for better UX. Judging by the current state, i say a lot of customers fall into this category.

[horsebridge]

I'm part of a smaller shop. GCP didn't even bother responding to us when we tried to contact sales, which is why we're at AWS.

[politelemon]

Assuming AWS/Azure were chosen due to thinly veiled bribery is unnecessarily reductive and in bad faith.

[makeitdouble]

As a matter of fact Google Cloud will also wine and dine a CTO as needed. That's part of the sales process IMHO.

A decision maker can basically choose from where they want to get bribed, so it won't be a crucial factor most of the time.

[benterix]

In quite a few places I saw, it would be either that or sheer incompetence (which was obvious to me at the time, and become obvious to people who came after me and finally decided to migrate away, with more losses on the way that could have been easily avoided).

[re-thc]

There's been quite a few documented instances of large scale bribes by Azure.