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GCP already feels too big to me to become an incredible journey, deprioritized and left to slowly bitrot I could maybe see if it fails to grow, but even for Goo

by tux3 6y ago

GCP already feels too big to me to become an incredible journey, deprioritized and left to slowly bitrot I could maybe see if it fails to grow, but even for Google closing a whole Cloud Platform on this scale would be unprecedented and _extremely_ damaging. Google has lost a lot of trust and goodwill, but GCP isn't Google Reader. A sudden GCP EOL would be cataclysmic :)

echelon 6y ago
Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but it was already leaked that Google attached funding strings to GCP growth targets. https://www.theinformation.com/articles/google-brass-set-2023-as-deadline-to-beat-amazon-microsoft-in-cloud https://www.theinformation.com/articles/google-brass-set-202...
- zadokshi 6y ago
  The idea of giving up on GCP because it wasn’t the highest profit cloud provider is an interesting idea, I honestly don’t believe it. As if there would be a call. “we’re only number 2 in cloud computing so we are shutting down”. Does google really make that kind of decision. It feels like giving up on the internet because they didn’t win.
  - echelon 6y ago
    Look at every other Google product decision ever. It's a lens through which to evaluate the "GCP 2023 leak".
- oblio 6y ago
  Paywalled :-(
- jlgaddis 6y ago
  "Unlocked" article: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/google-brass-set-2023-as-deadline-to-beat-amazon-microsoft-in-cloud?pu=hackernewsyw3xln&utm_source=hackernews&utm_medium=unlock https://www.theinformation.com/articles/google-brass-set-202...
bavell 6y ago
Agreed, GCP EOL is one of the few things that would piss me off enough to leave Gsuite and the rest of Google's services.
philistine 6y ago
Google heavily bet on Google Plus, and they still left it to rot and shut it down. GCP closing would be much bigger than Reader, but not that much bigger than Plus.
- whynaut 6y ago
  I don’t see how it’s the same scale. Dropping GCP would hugely disrupt other companies’ operations, not just users’ social media habits.
  - blaser-waffle 6y ago
    Aye. I can migrate my social media activities to another platform, but migrating my company's infrastructure would take years and cost millions. We could either do it fast and have revenue impacting events, or slow and at higher labor and opportunity costs.
exikyut 6y ago
https://xkcd.com/1737/ https://xkcd.com/1737/

by tux3 6y ago

echelon 6y ago

Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but it was already leaked that Google attached funding strings to GCP growth targets. https://www.theinformation.com/articles/google-brass-set-2023-as-deadline-to-beat-amazon-microsoft-in-cloud https://www.theinformation.com/articles/google-brass-set-202...

zadokshi 6y ago
The idea of giving up on GCP because it wasn’t the highest profit cloud provider is an interesting idea, I honestly don’t believe it. As if there would be a call. “we’re only number 2 in cloud computing so we are shutting down”. Does google really make that kind of decision. It feels like giving up on the internet because they didn’t win.
- echelon 6y ago
  Look at every other Google product decision ever. It's a lens through which to evaluate the "GCP 2023 leak".
oblio 6y ago
Paywalled :-(
jlgaddis 6y ago
"Unlocked" article: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/google-brass-set-2023-as-deadline-to-beat-amazon-microsoft-in-cloud?pu=hackernewsyw3xln&utm_source=hackernews&utm_medium=unlock https://www.theinformation.com/articles/google-brass-set-202...

bavell 6y ago

Agreed, GCP EOL is one of the few things that would piss me off enough to leave Gsuite and the rest of Google's services.

philistine 6y ago

Google heavily bet on Google Plus, and they still left it to rot and shut it down. GCP closing would be much bigger than Reader, but not that much bigger than Plus.

whynaut 6y ago
I don’t see how it’s the same scale. Dropping GCP would hugely disrupt other companies’ operations, not just users’ social media habits.
- blaser-waffle 6y ago
  Aye. I can migrate my social media activities to another platform, but migrating my company's infrastructure would take years and cost millions. We could either do it fast and have revenue impacting events, or slow and at higher labor and opportunity costs.

exikyut 6y ago

https://xkcd.com/1737/ https://xkcd.com/1737/