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@deepblackblue Given interest rates are almost 0 and have been for almost 15 years, any money you put into these accounts will likely be eaten by inflation by the time they're adults, if the trend continues.

@resjudicata Yes, because compute is a commodity. We will go to whichever reputable provider will be cheapest or offer us sufficient credits to be worth the engineering time to perform the migrations. The savings need to be material -- if it is something like 5% cheaper, then that's not enough...

@tinaman One data point is that my company got 12 months worth of credits for free, just by talking to sales, writing a couple of proposals and agreeing to migrate from our old provider. We spent about $40k a year at the old provider. We essentially got $40k for free from GCloud.

@tinaman Because when you're a late entrant (GCloud) into a crowded market (AWS, Azure, DigitalOcean, IBM etc), one of the ways you can win customers is by giving them big discounts, literally on years of usage. That costs money.