One thing that is kind of amusing was that I was able to find a price sheet in the AWS marketplace for GCP-owned Looker that isn't available anywhere else.
Apparently the AWS solution not only works as a way to simplify your purchasing, it also works to produce better transparency in the market.
I'm not sure the product mix in either case is necessarily what the OP was talking about, though. For example, I don't think, e.g. SalesForce or HubSpot are available on either.
I dug for an example on Google Cloud and found this "Zenoss" product [1].
"Managed Services are fully hosted, managed, and supported by the service providers. Although you register with the service provider to use the service, Google handles all billing."
Seems to be exactly what the author describes. No idea what share of the subscription fee Google takes.
A significant problem with GCP is how they only handle credit cards, and with various limitations, in many areas.
I had outages purely because I could not just wire the money - a common way of handling payments in Poland (I have even used bank transfers to pay for pizza takeout).
One thing that is kind of amusing was that I was able to find a price sheet in the AWS marketplace for GCP-owned Looker that isn't available anywhere else.
Apparently the AWS solution not only works as a way to simplify your purchasing, it also works to produce better transparency in the market.
I'm not sure the product mix in either case is necessarily what the OP was talking about, though. For example, I don't think, e.g. SalesForce or HubSpot are available on either.