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Looks like GCP needs to sorely address this (mis)perception, and ensure their commitments to GCP is separate from the consumer business. But really, GCP is not

Looks like GCP needs to sorely address this (mis)perception, and ensure their commitments to GCP is separate from the consumer business. But really, GCP is not the same as the consumer-facing products. GCP already has a lot of clout, and literally nothing I know in GCP has been deprecated/chopped just like that. GCP already has a huge following in its own right and it's very unlikely for GCP stuff to be axed, given how careful they are with implementing new features (I have interacted with numerous engineers, and often feature requests are taken with a lot of valid pushback to prevent feature creep).

raxxorrax 8y ago
I don't think you can fully separate business and customers. Google Maps? Google suddenly vastly increased prices. This is something all cloud providers suffer from. What assurance do I get that pricing and quality of service remains stable? Amazon has the same problem. If I look into my billing console, I see an increase of used computing resources. From inactive projects. They still managed to use significant CPU-time. I would not be able to claim otherwise. As long as the costs remain low, this is not a problem. But you have to believe your cloud provider...