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Yep.I now believe Google is serious about cloud.It is beyond me why it takes Google too long to do this.

First to market does not always win (see Apple). Google can take all the lessons learned from AWS RDS and other players and build better solutions.

I don't think it's an all or nothing game either. I think there is a lot of room for the big three IaaS platforms to coexist comfortably.