Google Cloud ups game against Amazon, buys cloud-services firm Bitium(siliconbeat.com)
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Google Cloud ups game against Amazon, buys cloud-services firm Bitium
http://www.siliconbeat.com/2017/09/26/google-cloud-ups-game-against-amazon-buys-cloud-services-firm-bitium/
It’s that the entire decision tree seems run by robots. You don’t hear about AWS customers:
* Having to plunk down credit card deposits to extend service limits.
* Having their accounts shut off randomly and not being able to turn them back on for hours or days without explanation.
* Incurring horrifying bills by mistake and being forced to pay them.
Computers are awesome, I get that— but people don’t want to trust their production infrastructures to a capricious algorithm. I want to see Google do better than it is, but I consistently fail to see signs that they understand their market.