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by rvnx 119 days ago
Google Cloud is good and successful. Except they can't implement billing hard caps, or pretend they can't.
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Im not sure what you consider successful. They've been struggling to get market share vs azure, and the product isnt that good. lots of rough edges, and piss poor support
Their API business model seems to be hope enough people accidentally go over free tier: $0 for the first 5000 monthly places lookups, $40 per 1000 after that
Neither does AWS and you can argue they aren't good but they're objectively successful, so it doesn't seem like a good metric.