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A couple guesses:

* AWS has the momentum and reputation. They've been in the game a while.

* Google has earned a reputation for shuttering products with little warning. CTOs really dislike an ad-hoc forced migration.

That said, I've been hearing good things about GCE. If they can polish their image WRT stability, they'll be grabbing marketshare in a couple years.

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> * Google has earned a reputation for shuttering products with little warning. CTOs really dislike an ad-hoc forced migration.

Exactly why we smiled and said "thanks but no thanks" when their salesfolk hit us up; I can't trust that any given Google platform will still be there in three to five years.

I wonder if becoming an independent group cloud group inside of alphabet would help in that regard.

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