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Indexing has been rewritten many times over. Even if you removed all the dependencies on Bigtable and co., I think indexing would be the last to move, for quite practical reasons, due to its sheer size and design. The parent poster picked probably the worst workload to migrate to public GCP. Gmail, YouTube and search serving are easier in comparison.


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