(my background: tech evangelist at AWS for 6 years, then CTO at VMware's public cloud for two, then CTO at startup, now CEO/founder).<p>I am super impressed by Alphabet / Google / GCP in the linux container segment: this announcement is very timely both as a response to Azure's announcement (quick decision making considering how big Google is), and both in relation to re:Invent and to upcoming Kubecon in December.<p>GCP is building an outstanding technical platform. I believe this will pay off big time in a few years. Azure, instead is super well positioned as a true hybrid cloud approach, although people overestimate the importance of "hybrid" and underestimate the complexity of it.<p>I wrote this a year ago on the subject, and I think it's still quite relevant: <a href="https://medium.com/simone-brunozzi/the-cloud-wars-of-2017-ac9f352911a2" rel="nofollow">https://medium.com/simone-brunozzi/the-cloud-wars-of-2017-ac...</a>