[tadeegan]

Google will buy them to reduce chance of legitimate competition probably…

[srameshc]

What customer base will Render bring to them ? Google directly competes with AWS and Azure and it need the big enterprise customers if any .

[XorNot]

Also all those services basically just sit back and wait till a company gets big enough to have in-house SevOps/SRE/whatever and the inevitable cost optimising migration gets demanded.

[9283409232]

Companies will make acquisitions as a means of preventing competition. It might not be about bringing a new customer base but protecting the one you already have.

[scirob]

or maybe Salesforce will buy them as they have an appetite for breaking nice things