Eh I mean Google moved GCP's revenue around because Microsoft was doing that to make Azure look bigger than GCP. If you can't beat em, join em. Google's got long term contracts with a lot of companies and the government, so GCP isn't going to shut down anytime soon. Their consumer products division has problems with product longevy, but we're not paying them corporation level money or signing serious contracts when buying a Stadia subscription. So it's just business.
What I've heard is Azure is a pain in the ass, and things take three times as long to set up there, for some reason. There's also Oracle cloud but you hear way less about them. out there.
These sorts of behaviors take out whole swaths of businesses wholesale. It's random, and you never know when it will happen to you.
It's the difference between managing a classroom with:
- an annoying kid throwing spitballs every day (Azure)
- the quiet kid who, one day, brings an assault rifle, a few extra mags, and starts spraying bullets into the cafeteria (Google).
Yes, one is a constant source of annoyance, but really, it's very manageable when you consider the alternative.
(Oracle, in the school analogy, is the mean kid who spreads false rumors about you. As far as I can tell, there is never a sound, long-term business reason to pick Oracle. Most of the reason Oracle is chosen is they're very good at setting up offerings which align to misaligned incentives; they're very often the right choice for maximizing some quarterly or annual objective so someone gets their bonus. In return, the firm is usually completely milked by Oracle a few years down the line. By that point, the decision maker has typically collected their bonus, moved on, and it's no longer their problem.)
Name one product that was killed by Google while they had an agreement with the US government not to. Who cares about random, unprofitable products like Google+ rightfully being shuttered? There is no killedbyapple because they barely take risks on products, especially software products.
What I've heard is Azure is a pain in the ass, and things take three times as long to set up there, for some reason. There's also Oracle cloud but you hear way less about them. out there.