Penny wise and cloud foolish

Why do people trust AWS in a way that they don&#x27;t trust GCP? Its because of things like this.<p>One of the most important things about building on top of a cloud platform is that the platform needs to not move out from under you! That means, don&#x27;t turn off features and services I&#x27;m depending on. It also means don&#x27;t completely change the pricing model after I&#x27;ve built a business around the old model. AWS knows this and has a 15 year history of giving customers this stability.<p>GCP on the other hand has a track record of changing pricing models and turning off services. It has gotten to the point where I am simply not comfortable using GCP to build on, even if their solution is technically superior to AWS. I just can&#x27;t trust that they won&#x27;t pull the rug out from under me again.<p>GCP has a major problem with their reputation, and it doesn&#x27;t seem like they are even aware of it.

From a link in the article: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.datacenterdynamics.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;news&#x2F;google-restructuring-and-laying-off-google-cloud-support-staff-as-it-buys-mandiant-for-54-billion&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.datacenterdynamics.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;news&#x2F;google-restructur...</a><p>&gt; To build a sustainable operating model that enables us to delight and improve Googler well-being over time, we are accelerating our strategy to move some work to our Support hubs and vendors and are restructuring our operations to create further efficiencies<p>To delight? And improve Googler well-being over time?<p>...get me a bucket, the corporate speak is making me nauseous. Hell, even just the word Googler - I&#x27;d say it&#x27;s the worst, but well, Facebook has Metamates, so they win this one.

I think we’re exiting the ever decreasing cloud price era.<p>The commodity market for compute is tight, and nearly all the prices have increased. Im surprised we’ve stayed as stable as we are currently. I actually expect to see increases from AWS in the next 6 months given dc and power pricing.