> IANAL, but Both AWS [0] and Azure [1] have 12-month deprecation policies - this is industry standard, as mentioned in the Google Developers blog you link. So

> IANAL, but Both AWS [0] and Azure [1] have 12-month deprecation policies - this is industry standard, as mentioned in the Google Developers blog you link. Something to keep in mind but it's very difficult to find anything AWS has removed. They have APIs / features that have existed since their launch. While they may have such a policy it's essentially unheard of. For Azure I'm not as familiar with but a few Google searches and I also can't find an API they killed. There is a difference between a rate in practice and a rate in policy. I don't have the numbers to know what any of the big cloud provider's rates actually are but as someone who has worked for large companies and organizations one year is simply not long enough for almost any change especially one that is necessary for non-business reasons. Regardless of who's suggesting it.