I think it’s fair not to take any given story at face value, without ”receipts” to back it up. You however seem to me to go in the other direction and barely want to give OP the benefit of the doubt. What details would you like to see in order to be convinced?
From your profile I clicked through to your LinkedIn via your website, and I think it would’ve been becoming of you to disclose that you were a senior engineering manager at Google Cloud up until earlier this year, given the context of the discussion and your stance on it.
And now I work for the competition :) In any case, I know enough about how cloud services work to be able to comment intelligently, and don't have any interest in Google (except for some stock I hold indirectly via ETFs). This is all just common sense plus what I know from having worked for several cloud services providers.
From your profile I clicked through to your LinkedIn via your website, and I think it would’ve been becoming of you to disclose that you were a senior engineering manager at Google Cloud up until earlier this year, given the context of the discussion and your stance on it.