I'm curious regarding the economics of this but could anyone approximate the cost associated with this move or expenses going forward. It sounds like this would be a pretty big account for Google.
You can bet your bottom dollar Spotify are getting heavy, heavy discounts. Google are ramping up here in Stockholm, partly to get this account. This has been in the works since before last summer, so they've taken time before announcing it.
The precedent for Spotify was switching from Cloudera to Hortonworks a couple of years ago. Rumours are that they got their licenses for close to nothing from Hortonworks, they were so desparate to close them. Same rumours going around vis-a-vi GCE...
Just with respect to some details: Spotify changed from being a self-supporting (free) user of Cloudera's open source platform to being a paid support customer of Hortonworks. So, it was never actually a Cloudera customer (despite what was widely "reported").
