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Great... how long till google gets bored of this and cuts all theses services leaving their customer's screwed? After seeing how google handles products and th

Great... how long till google gets bored of this and cuts all theses services leaving their customer's screwed? After seeing how google handles products and their sun-setting I would never trust my production environment with google. The only product I ever integrated our production environment with was google maps/places and we got fucked over with a 5x cost increase. Seriously who would ever trust google over AWS or Azure...

toomuchtodo 8y ago
You’re not wrong. I see most cloud consumers at AWS, with anyone else married to Microsoft or who is in business competing against Amazon going with Azure. Which is a shame, because Google Cloud is pretty solid, but the stigma is real.
- sieabahlpark 8y ago
  Is it really a stigma if it's backed by evidence? And repeated often? https://killedbygoogle.com https://killedbygoogle.com
  - toomuchtodo 8y ago
    I didn't stay the stigma was uncalled for. I personally do not use Google services anymore, nor would I recommend anyone else do so.
- dx034 8y ago
  Maybe it really helps Amazon that their cloud offering has a separate brand and is pretty much distinct of Amazon. From my experience, few people think of Amazon's other products when evaluating AWS. Similar with Azure, it's closely linked to Microsoft but still a distinct brand. Maybe it would've helped Google to name their Cloud product with a name that doesn't contain Google.
  - v7p1Qbt1im 8y ago
    Separate like Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure you mean? I find this really strange. This would hardly be a subtle deception. Are people not able to compartmentalize? Commercial is not consumer. GCP is commercial and has SLA‘s and deprecation policies no different from AWS and Azure.
    - dx034 8y ago
      I can't remember when I last heard someone saying "Amazon Web Services". It's commonly called AWS and while most people know it's owned by Amazon, it's a very distinct product. Google Cloud follows the same naming pattern as other Google products, many of which were discontinued. These things shouldn't make a difference but I believe they do, and they help to shield AWS from negative press around Amazon.
    - manigandham 8y ago
      Amazon and Microsoft don't have the same history of shutdowns on the consumer side though. They both have product churn but Amazon is ecommerce that has always expanded while Microsoft has been providing Windows and Office for decades. Google makes way more consumer product launches and then suffers from the reputation of shutting these down. So yes, developers should know the difference between commercial and consumer but unfortunately there's too much historical baggage. Also, while the commercial side could be defended before, the Maps API pricing change was just as bad as a shutdown for many customers.
robbyt 8y ago
Google Cloud has SLAs with reasonable depreciation schedules. Google's free consumer services, not so much...

toomuchtodo 8y ago

You’re not wrong. I see most cloud consumers at AWS, with anyone else married to Microsoft or who is in business competing against Amazon going with Azure. Which is a shame, because Google Cloud is pretty solid, but the stigma is real.

sieabahlpark 8y ago
Is it really a stigma if it's backed by evidence? And repeated often? https://killedbygoogle.com https://killedbygoogle.com
- toomuchtodo 8y ago
  I didn't stay the stigma was uncalled for. I personally do not use Google services anymore, nor would I recommend anyone else do so.
dx034 8y ago
Maybe it really helps Amazon that their cloud offering has a separate brand and is pretty much distinct of Amazon. From my experience, few people think of Amazon's other products when evaluating AWS. Similar with Azure, it's closely linked to Microsoft but still a distinct brand. Maybe it would've helped Google to name their Cloud product with a name that doesn't contain Google.
- v7p1Qbt1im 8y ago
  Separate like Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure you mean? I find this really strange. This would hardly be a subtle deception. Are people not able to compartmentalize? Commercial is not consumer. GCP is commercial and has SLA‘s and deprecation policies no different from AWS and Azure.
  - dx034 8y ago
    I can't remember when I last heard someone saying "Amazon Web Services". It's commonly called AWS and while most people know it's owned by Amazon, it's a very distinct product. Google Cloud follows the same naming pattern as other Google products, many of which were discontinued. These things shouldn't make a difference but I believe they do, and they help to shield AWS from negative press around Amazon.
  - manigandham 8y ago
    Amazon and Microsoft don't have the same history of shutdowns on the consumer side though. They both have product churn but Amazon is ecommerce that has always expanded while Microsoft has been providing Windows and Office for decades. Google makes way more consumer product launches and then suffers from the reputation of shutting these down. So yes, developers should know the difference between commercial and consumer but unfortunately there's too much historical baggage. Also, while the commercial side could be defended before, the Maps API pricing change was just as bad as a shutdown for many customers.

robbyt 8y ago

Google Cloud has SLAs with reasonable depreciation schedules. Google's free consumer services, not so much...