You can, but is Google going to make their environment so compatible with other cloud platform? Actually, how many major players do we have in this space, capable of delivering a true cloud environment?<p>AWS, Microsoft, and Google.<p>When AWS first started, it was EC2 and S3, so the model was about VM without worrying the bare metal. But as the platform continues to grow to challenge its competitors, the platform will begin to add more services which are only available and are proprietary to the its own platform.