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So pass this up the chain if you can: I've used both Azure and (continue to use) AWS, but I've never seriously even considered Google Cloud Platform because I f
by abrookewood 11y ago
So pass this up the chain if you can: I've used both Azure and (continue to use) AWS, but I've never seriously even considered Google Cloud Platform because I feel like Google's service offering is not stable. I know inherently that this is because of the way Google treats its consumer offerings, but I can't help but imagine that it applies to the business offerings as well.
- boulos 11y agoI hear you. Those of us that care regret the shutdown of Reader, as it has almost certainly cost us more business dollars than running it in perpetuity may have. That said, Google (like most businesses?) hasn't cancelled any product that is making lots of money. At Google, that means Ads, Apps, and yes Cloud. We're here to stay, and unlike on the consumer side Cloud has an explicit deprecation policy for products that have "gone GA" (graduated from Beta). Big picture items like Compute Engine, Google Cloud Storage, etc. aren't going anywhere. We might deprecate our v1 API after we're on v2 of course, but we're not cancelling the product (again, it makes us money, and that's a pretty key distinction from the consumer products Google has historically shuttered). Disclaimer: I work on Compute Engine and haven't personally cancelled anything yet ;).