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		udkl on Feb 24, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Spotify moves its back end to Google Cloud Better sales story AND marketing. Look at the names themselves CloudStorage Vs Redshift/s3, ComputeEngine Vs EC2. Cookies vs. Oreo. AWS service names are a brand in themselves while Google service names are too generic.

boulos on Feb 25, 2016 [–]

We internally use our three letter acronyms all the time: GCS, GCE, GAE, GKE (which itself is a pretty clever joke about the K being for Kubernetes).

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