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I am not worried that Amazon would shut down all of AWS any time soon. Can you honestly say it would be a complete surprise, however, if Google announced an EO

I am not worried that Amazon would shut down all of AWS any time soon. Can you honestly say it would be a complete surprise, however, if Google announced an EOL for GCP?

ggm 6y ago
Yes. I can honestly say this would be extremely surprising given the tenants, and the rate of change of the core kubernetes model. I do not believe the dead products list typically has either this paying customer base, or code change.
- fakedang 6y ago
  Who are the notable GCP tenants? Just curious. Tbh, the only reason I use GCP is Firebase, and the only reason I use Firebase is because it's usable for my (limited) purposes in a neat format. I'm currently in the process of migrating some functions to AWS, but it's so clunky, almost 2005-esque.
  - ggm 6y ago
    https://cloud.google.com/customers https://cloud.google.com/customers
dodobirdlord 6y ago
> Can you honestly say it would be a complete surprise, however, if Google announced an EOL for GCP? Of course. Anyone who thinks otherwise has just bought into a virulent meme and isn't actually thinking.
StavrosK 6y ago
Yeah, I mean, I get their huge history shutting down small ancillary projects that they didn't see as strategic advantages, but GCP isn't one of those, and probably not for the foreseeable future.
- xtracto 6y ago
  Wave wasnt small ancillary, Google+ wasnt small ancillary. Google Hangouts wasnt small ancillary, reader wasnt small ancillary. By that bar GCP is in the same boat. Good luck with that!
  - StavrosK 6y ago
    Wave was, Google+ failed, Hangouts got merged into Duo or whatever they call it now, Reader was.
miked85 6y ago
> Can you honestly say it would be a complete surprise, however, if Google announced an EOL for GCP? All of GCP? That would surprise me. Any particular GCP offering I may depend on that they decided to deprecate or replace? Absolutely.
dmortin 6y ago
Even if they did, for such a big service there would be a long transition period. E.g. 2 years, so you could move somewhere else.
- georgebarnett 6y ago
  That assumes that you can move off the system and that’s enough notice. Not to mention that it blows up your roadmap. What’s the point of outsourcing heavy lifting if the vendor is just going to surprise drop it back on your at an in opportune time?
- tinus_hn 6y ago
  That would be reasonable, yes. But not expected from Google.
- flurben 6y ago
  Wow, 2 years, such a long time

I am not worried that Amazon would shut down all of AWS any time soon. Can you honestly say it would be a complete surprise, however, if Google announced an EOL for GCP?

ggm 6y ago

Yes. I can honestly say this would be extremely surprising given the tenants, and the rate of change of the core kubernetes model. I do not believe the dead products list typically has either this paying customer base, or code change.

fakedang 6y ago
Who are the notable GCP tenants? Just curious. Tbh, the only reason I use GCP is Firebase, and the only reason I use Firebase is because it's usable for my (limited) purposes in a neat format. I'm currently in the process of migrating some functions to AWS, but it's so clunky, almost 2005-esque.
- ggm 6y ago
  https://cloud.google.com/customers https://cloud.google.com/customers

dodobirdlord 6y ago

> Can you honestly say it would be a complete surprise, however, if Google announced an EOL for GCP? Of course. Anyone who thinks otherwise has just bought into a virulent meme and isn't actually thinking.

StavrosK 6y ago

Yeah, I mean, I get their huge history shutting down small ancillary projects that they didn't see as strategic advantages, but GCP isn't one of those, and probably not for the foreseeable future.

xtracto 6y ago
Wave wasnt small ancillary, Google+ wasnt small ancillary. Google Hangouts wasnt small ancillary, reader wasnt small ancillary. By that bar GCP is in the same boat. Good luck with that!
- StavrosK 6y ago
  Wave was, Google+ failed, Hangouts got merged into Duo or whatever they call it now, Reader was.

miked85 6y ago

> Can you honestly say it would be a complete surprise, however, if Google announced an EOL for GCP? All of GCP? That would surprise me. Any particular GCP offering I may depend on that they decided to deprecate or replace? Absolutely.

dmortin 6y ago

Even if they did, for such a big service there would be a long transition period. E.g. 2 years, so you could move somewhere else.

georgebarnett 6y ago
That assumes that you can move off the system and that’s enough notice. Not to mention that it blows up your roadmap. What’s the point of outsourcing heavy lifting if the vendor is just going to surprise drop it back on your at an in opportune time?
tinus_hn 6y ago
That would be reasonable, yes. But not expected from Google.
flurben 6y ago
Wow, 2 years, such a long time