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Google has been putting a lot of time and effort into cloud in the recent years and doesn't look to be slowing down anytime soon. As to ease your worry here a
by kyrra 10y ago
Google has been putting a lot of time and effort into cloud in the recent years and doesn't look to be slowing down anytime soon.
As to ease your worry here a little, any launched cloud products have at a minimum a 1-year deprecation policy[0]. Anecdotal: AppEngine deprecated their Master/Slave datastore[1] in April 2012, and it was actually shutdown on July 6, 2015. So that's 3+ years to move to newer tech.
[0] https://cloud.google.com/terms/ https://cloud.google.com/terms/ (section 7.2)
[1] http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2012/04/masterslave-datastore-thanks-for-all.html http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2012/04/masterslave-data...
- markdown 10y agoTheir record is 4yrs for ClientLogin: https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/deprecations/ https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/deprecations/
- Twirrim 10y agoHere's the thing: 12 months deprecation notice is abysmal for a key business demographic, enterprise customers. That's lightning fast for many of them. Planning and moving that much infrastructure, data etc. is non-trivial takes a lot of time and hard work. You point out examples of longer deprecation, but that doesn't matter one iota to people evaluating the cloud. Track record isn't legally binding, unlike the contractual 12 months.