Why Google is waiving egress fees for disgruntled customers ditching GCP Data egress fees aren't going away, but if you really want to ditch Google Cloud and take your data somewhere else, the search giant is willing to cut you a break. In an announcement on Thursday, Google said it will waive data migration fees for those leaving its public cloud, if of course you're willing to jump through a …
The fact that such a notion exists is the first problem.
There are very few good reasons to put your data on someone else's server, but companies are apparently falling over themselves to do it.
That is the real problem, and it's not going away any time soon.
If you know what you're doing.
The vast majority of businesses aren't IT businesses so expecting them to manage data securely themselves is naive.
You remind me of people 30 years ago bragging about how they'd written their own encryption to make it more secure.
At some point, even the dimmest bulbs in the C-Suite will realise what they've signed up to with <-- insert provider's name here -->. By being the first to make such an announcement (the details don't matter in such press releases), Google will get the press and very likely some business. The egress & lock-in farce really does need anti-trust investigation but that will take years.
You've exceeded the limit for gullibility and will have to go on a new tier.
Just in case you don't know the difference: Google Docs is pretty much a web-only product, so there's no problem whatsoever accessing Google Docs from a virtual desktop running on Azure; you just need a browser. The few Drive-related native apps provided by Google have no such restrictions either. However, Office is still (in part) based on heavy native applications, which Microsoft does not allow running on virtual desktops running on GCP.
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