op only cites it as an example. but there is empirical evidence -- MS holds enterprise market-share even for products google is otherwise competitive in, and privacy impact is absolutely one of the reasons

But everything on GCP is encrypted?

If you really want, you can use your own keys end-to-end.

I'm satisfied that Google treats adwords and advertising areas of the business differently to business services. Apple, Twitter and many large banks use GCP - do you really think they would do that if Google was snooping at the data?

Please back up any claims with evidence.

i should clarify: i dont think google is snooping at enterprise data when there are proper agreements in place -- my comment was only that there is a difference in privacy impact between MS and google

i cant share the PIA of my own enterprise but specifically we needed certain guarantees about where data would be stored that MS could make and google could not. that's all.