As far as I've heard from Netflix's end the bottom line cost was not as big a factor in their infrastructure decisions as their content contracts were a much larger % of their budget. I suspect Google wants to highlight more the fact that it works and works well rather than highlight cost competitiveness at the moment.
thanks for the post @dmytton.
not sure if it's accurate It'd be lovely for Spotify or Google to chime in.
My guess is they won't. I suspect that Google heavily subsidized the deal. One way to get market traction is to get market awareness, and Spotify on GCP achieves that. Spotify would have been dumb not to get a huge discount in exchange for its logo.
However, Spotify still stores its music files on AWS and uses CloudFront for content distribution. They're only gonna use Google Cloud for analyzing customer data. They won't ditch AWS...
thanks for the post @dmytton.
not sure if it's accurate It'd be lovely for Spotify or Google to chime in.