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I work for a fortune 100 company. Years ago we looked at all the cloud providers trying to determine who to go with. Google was thrown out on the first day for this very reason. They simply cannot be trusted not to kill their products at the drop of a hat.

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I was expecting rigorous analysis in terms of cost of services and the complexity/simplicity of offering, reliability figures, etc. but this fortune 100 company went with feelings

This is why starting your comment with "I work for a fortune 100 company" adds zero credibility to what's following.

It might adds negative credibility on HN.

May be the analysis is so overwhelming clear that it can be done in one day.

That speaks volumes about the quality of decision-making at your fortune 100 company, and about their ability to do due diligence.

What do you mean specifically?

It seems like all the OP is saying is that the company evaluated alternatives (Azure & AWS) whose cloud products are "first class" citizens of the business whereas with Google the first class product is search, advertising, Android (a couple other things but you get the idea).

It doesn't seem too far out of left field that Google would flounder with all it's cloud products being phased out in favor of some other new product they've made or acquired.

No it doesn’t.

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