Here's the thing: 12 months deprecation notice is abysmal for a key business demographic, enterprise customers. That's lightning fast for many of them. Planni

Here'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.