By nature large companies have massive global teams and there is no single provider for anything. Team A could using AWS, while team B cloud be using GCP, and team C is using Azure. Just because team B says they are using GCP doesn't mean the others are lying. Or, that there is anything weird going on.
From what I understood is that everything runs on public clouds. They tried Microsoft, Google, and Amazon. Sooo they should have enough experience by now.
- No mention of an European data center (data sovereingty and regulation might be something they don't care about, but I deal with it every day).
- No mention whatsoever of virtualization (although there was an older post mentioning a move to Kubernetes for a part of their stack).
I wonder what the economics of taking this to a public cloud provider would look like (full disclosure - I work on Azure), and how much they could do architecturally to benefit from that.
Making the claim of there being a partnership with a company because you have a container available on their cloud hosting platform seems a bit overstated to me.
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