> I met a CTO of a startup sometime ago that moved their entire operations from GCP to AWS because they were "more familiar with it". That's all.
Without knowing which startup you are referring to its hard to make a judgement as to the quality of the decision but you should not discount the role tooling familiarity has when developing software.
> but you should not discount the role tooling familiarity has when developing software.
No 1 was familiar with the cloud when it 1st came out.
As to this scenario, clearly the whole company was running GCP so everyone minus the new CTO would be familiar with GCP vs something else.
Point exactly being that regardless of the security team or the developers - this familiarity that you mention or any other trait only applies to a select few in management.
Without knowing which startup you are referring to its hard to make a judgement as to the quality of the decision but you should not discount the role tooling familiarity has when developing software.