That's an anti-competitive position for an IaaS to take. "We already compete with your kind of software here, so we won't sell you the hardware"?
I work on some analytics software that includes GPU ML algorithms & non-ML GPU algorithms, neither of which Google makes. Our peers do a lot of visual computing in AWS. Really weird thing to hear from a Google rep.
"Yes, we know! Sorry! If you just need some ML things and can use the Cloud ML or Cloud Vision services we've got something to tide you over.
If not, we're always excited to get direct 'I want to do X' feedback that we can translate into 'Customers are demanding Y, and willing to pay Z'".
Please don't take the comment to mean we're trying to box people out of this space. We're not. We do think (most? many?) people don't want to actually roll their own, but we love everyone.
I work on some analytics software that includes GPU ML algorithms & non-ML GPU algorithms, neither of which Google makes. Our peers do a lot of visual computing in AWS. Really weird thing to hear from a Google rep.