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>That would explain why Google would be willing to shut down Google Cloud in 2023 if they are not one of the top 2 players in this space. I wonder how much of
by cmdshiftf4 7y ago
>That would explain why Google would be willing to shut down Google Cloud in 2023 if they are not one of the top 2 players in this space.
I wonder how much of an effect this disclosure will affect the outcome?
I've used AWS heavily for work-related services and have touched GCP a few times for little side projects in the past. Knowing that they'd be prepared to shut down GCP if they're not market leader or market second within a small amount of time ensures I personally will never, _ever_ use them for enterprise work, and I'm sure I'm not alone in that.
- mlthoughts2018 7y agoI’m in the middle of a painful migration from AWS to GCP and my advice is definitely stay away from GCP. The cloud tools do not usually have real parity or interop with other cloud tools as claimed (eg interop with boto or s3), many gcloud utilities have way worse performance and memory issues, the docs are plastered with up-selling ads and, inconsistent service account auth vs IAM-style user auth issues, and on top of all that, there is this risk Google shuts it down. Even if they don’t shut down GCS or GKE core stuff, there are so many peripheral products like managed big data solutions, Cloud Functions, etc., that seem like _classic_ cases where Google will abruptly shut them down.
- sciurus 7y agoFor info on how things are shut down, see https://cloud.google.com/terms/#deprecation-policy https://cloud.google.com/terms/#deprecation-policy https://cloud.google.com/terms/deprecation https://cloud.google.com/terms/deprecation
- urda 7y agoYou just can't rely on Google for long term services any more. That memo was just the final nail the GCP coffin. Google wouldn't care a second about you, so why should you give them your business?