The "unlimited dollars" come from somewhere after all.
GCP is behind in market share, but has the incredible cheat advantage of just not being Amazon. Most retailers won't touch Amazon services with a ten foot pole, so the choice is GCP or Azure. Azure is way more painful for FOSS stacks, so GCP has its own area with only limited competition.
I’m not sure what you mean by Azure being more painful for FOSS stacks. That is not my experience. Old you elaborate?
However I have seen many people flee from GCP because: Google lacks customer focus, Google is free about killing services, Google seems to not care about external users, people plain don’t trust Google with their code, data or reputation.
Customers would rather choose Azure. GCP has a bad rep, bad documentation, bad support compared to AWS / Azure. & with google cutting off products, their trust is damaged.
GCP is behind in market share, but has the incredible cheat advantage of just not being Amazon. Most retailers won't touch Amazon services with a ten foot pole, so the choice is GCP or Azure. Azure is way more painful for FOSS stacks, so GCP has its own area with only limited competition.