Spend 25k a month on Azure vs AWS. It's not comparable any more than Sonii branded product are comparable to Sony products. One derives revenue comes from ignorance while the other is the product being copied, badly. GCE is akin to Oracle's "cloud offering" which is simply a different product, but hey they all say "cloud" so they are competing! Market influence isn't as powerful when you can't actually deliver. What's to the left of you at 33.802799, -117.885665 using apple maps? Oh Apple Maps a different market, meaning it's not in the same market. Being apologetic about features is being disingenuous about choices. There aren't that many for people who have specific technical needs and marketing doesn't solve "address those issues" (a scripted phrase from highwinds CDN, which is another terrible service). The leaders will stay that way and there's not a lot that venture capital can do to avoid that, since outliers are absorbed in these winner-take-all markets.