Comment by shwetanshu21

I think GCP has been giving out lucrative contracts with lots of discounts and credits which has led to this growth. I've seen many companies jump the ship cause they got 100/200k 2/3 year credits which is a lot for many of them at that stage. They also have their partners migrate them at their own expense. So it is essentially free money for those companies. I know a prominent entertainment content provider who went from AWS to Azure and then from Azure to GCP just because of this in 6-7 year. Plus the GPU hunt nowadays along with everyone producing code has definetely helped every cloud provider and even dedicated server providers/VPS (most of them dont have cheap options availaible). So how much of the growth has been organic vs TK led, hard to know.

If I think about it you might be right though some of this comes from Google's disdain for its customers be it hardware/software/cloud. So it is kinda inherited. One of the main reasons most good cloud consultants ask their clients to stay away from GCP is because of their depreciation policy. Plus stuff like this has been common in GCP.

So TK brought it to fix it instead of fixing it has brought the toxic OCI culture too which in the end brings them down even more.