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> I'm wary about GCP because Google hasn't issued any kind of promissory statement that GCP won't end up on the [Google Graveyard](https://killedbygoogle.com/ h
by cmeacham98 6y ago
> I'm wary about GCP because Google hasn't issued any kind of promissory statement that GCP won't end up on the [Google Graveyard](https://killedbygoogle.com/ https://killedbygoogle.com/)
Isn't that literally what an SLA is, a (contractually) guaranteed level of service for some interval of time?
- XorNot 6y agoYes but it's also why those are a lot shorter. If Google has been signing 10 year horizon SLAs, that'd be big news.
- Clewza313 6y agoGoogle is signing 10-year deals though: https://cloud.google.com/press-releases/2020/0121/sabre-and-google-cloud-partnership https://cloud.google.com/press-releases/2020/0121/sabre-and-...
- floatingatoll 6y agoThose do not require that the services guaranteed contractually remain available to other customers for use.
- joshuamorton 6y agoBut it generally makes business sense to deprecate a system even though you need to maintain it for 2 customers for another 7 years?
- XorNot 6y agoThat press release doesn't say anything about Google signing an SLA that commits them to 10 years of service availability.
- DaiPlusPlus 6y agoGoogle's GCP SLAs are 99.95% per month[1]. There's no mention of any guarantee that the GCP Cloud nor that specific GCP Products (like App Engine) will be supported for, say, 10+ years from now (well, 10+ years is unreasonable, but something like "at least 3 years, and with 2 years' notice of any planned discontinuation" would be nice). [1]: https://cloud.google.com/appengine/sla https://cloud.google.com/appengine/sla
- cmeacham98 6y agoThose are the standard SLAs but I presume you could negotiate a better one assuming you're willing to pay? I don't know what the cost for that would be though.
- Clewza313 6y agoNot really: an SLA for a service doesn't preclude the deprecation of the entire service.