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What does "protection" and "guarantee" really mean? If a dozen meteors simultaneously strike every Google datacenter and office location, would the products con
by 013a 8y ago
What does "protection" and "guarantee" really mean? If a dozen meteors simultaneously strike every Google datacenter and office location, would the products continue to live on, even in the face of every conceivable guarantee their leadership makes before the event?
Point being; the only guarantees that any consumers should hold companies accountable to is: Does the product make money, and is it parallel to their conceivable long-term vision? That's literally all that matters. That's the only data consumers can use to decide whether a product will still exist in 10 years.
Google Cloud is this. Its absolutely profitable. And cloud tech is so deep in their DNA, they're literally decades ahead of anyone else. They were running containers and clusterized homogeneous server resource pools 8 years before anyone else knew to call them that, its just taking them time to productize everything they use internally.
Trust money. Trust vision. Don't trust words. G-Suite, Cloud, and Domains are very safe products.
- jkaplowitz 8y agoDannyBee, in a sibling reply to yours, points out that Google has made some legally binding commitments about the longevity of the Cloud products: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17997494 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17997494 No, it wouldn't require them to keep it operating if all of Google was simultaneously destroyed by meteors. But it would probably allow lawsuits against Google if they didn't give the required advance notice merely due to a change in business strategy, without a sufficient reason. Interestingly, AWS doesn't have that kind of guarantee, though they do have a long public cloud track record of not turning stuff down. You make a lot of additional good points about why these Google products are safe. I'm not convinced I'd put Domains in that list, and for G Suite and GCP I'd only put the core services (G Suite jargon) and GA offerings (GCP jargon). Plus some other services under those umbrellas if Google has told you something about their plans under NDA, which they do for many customers. But Google reliably provides transition plans and data exports if they do turn anything down, and I expect that will continue. (Disclosure: I formerly worked for Google and GCP in particular, but no more recently than early 2015 and I have no current insider info.)
- manquer 8y agoAWS likely doesn't have because they don't have the same trust problem Google does. Google likely were loosing from GCP deals because of this, so they put it in there to appease customers. One year is way too short as well. Enterprise application development does not happen at that speed . Teams and budgets are not readily available to start migration to something equivalent just coz Google felt like it. Even if that's not a problem migration may not even possible with proprietary APIs. You may have to deprecate entire fearures. If your SLA is longer and reasonable time to your customers, you are screwed.