The person I'm responding to is comparing product shutdowns between AWS (a cloud services divsion of Amazon) to Google (a company that contains both a cloud ser

The person I'm responding to is comparing product shutdowns between AWS (a cloud services divsion of Amazon) to Google (a company that contains both a cloud services division and a vastly larger consumper products division). This is an apples to oranges comparison. That's how it's relevant. Before you say, "Amazon never shuts anything down, even outside of cloud." A) They do [1]. B) They have a tiny range of products compared to Google, so of course the absolute frequency of shutdowns will also be lower. And before you say, "Well, better to have nothing than to have something and have it shut down." A) Some people [2] would disagree. B) Just don't use products in the category (consumer services) that Google tends to shut things down in. But, please, whatever you do, don't spam every single thread where Google launches a cloud product (a category where they have a decent track record) with your gripes about Google Reader or whatever. It's not helpful and it's not relevant. [1]: https://www.theverge.com/2015/10/25/9605840/amazon-shuts-down-a-lot-of-things https://www.theverge.com/2015/10/25/9605840/amazon-shuts-dow... [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred,_Lord_Tennyson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred,_Lord_Tennyson