Another way of looking at this. If you are shopping for a cloud platform Google is a really hard sell. On one hand you have Amazon who really paved the way here and literally built their company atop their platform and currently powers a huge piece of the web. On the other hand you have Microsoft who has decades of experience figuring out how to appeal to CEOs and enterprise customers and can dangle the prospects of integration with existing corporate infrastructure.
Google offers the Google name and a reputation for ditching services when the wind shifts. They really have little or no competitive advantage here. I'd personally rather build atop Linode or Digital Ocean than Google or at most, stick to the middle of the road, most generic parts of Google's platform.
Google offers the Google name and a reputation for ditching services when the wind shifts. They really have little or no competitive advantage here. I'd personally rather build atop Linode or Digital Ocean than Google or at most, stick to the middle of the road, most generic parts of Google's platform.