Spotify announced today , on their news blog, that they have selected Google Cloud Platform as an infrastructure partner for their popular music streaming service.
Spotify claims it’s “a big deal” for them to work with a cloud leader like Google, but it’s also a big deal for Google that an industry leader in the streaming category would choose them.
Certainly, Spotify could have chosen to expand service with AWS or even picked Microsoft’s Azure cloud offering to be at the foundation of their service.
Instead they chose the Google team led by Diane Greene