> what they do now has to make money That's a fair concern. However, as of 2015 they already have between 3 and 5 % of the cloud market [0][1]. It is likely

> what they do now has to make money That's a fair concern. However, as of 2015 they already have between 3 and 5 % of the cloud market [0][1]. It is likely they are already profitable with the usage they have (cloud is pretty high margin). There have been very few google products that were officially taken out of beta. Google Search and Google Mail are two of those. True, Google has a terrible reputation for dumping small dev and consumer facing products. Their cloud offerings are a completely different category. Not least of which, because they have no free tier -- only free trial. Anyone who continues to use Google Cloud products is paying for them. [0] http://www.businessinsider.com/why-amazon-is-so-hard-to-topple-in-the-cloud-and-where-everybody-else-falls-2015-10 http://www.businessinsider.com/why-amazon-is-so-hard-to-topp... [1] http://dazeinfo.com/2015/05/22/amazon-aws-google-cloud-microsoft-azure/ http://dazeinfo.com/2015/05/22/amazon-aws-google-cloud-micro...