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I don't know, seems to be mostly filled with speculation and anecdotes. I can find similar anecdotes of bad behavior by Amzon, for example claims of using AWS t

I don't know, seems to be mostly filled with speculation and anecdotes. I can find similar anecdotes of bad behavior by Amzon, for example claims of using AWS to steal its users' business ideas[1]. Admittedly, the original author's title of "Why I distrust Google Cloud more than AWS or Azure" much better describes their position than the editorialized title of the HN submitter ("Why Google Cloud is less trustworthy than AWS or Azure"). 1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23929044 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23929044

astrostl 6y ago
> Admittedly, the original author's title of "Why I distrust Google Cloud more than AWS or Azure" much better describes their position than the editorialized title of the HN submitter ("Why Google Cloud is less trustworthy than AWS or Azure"). Agreed. What is with the retitling?
- 1cvmask 6y ago
  Sometimes it is because of the title length limitations. I guess HN can could extend it a bit more by say 25 characters or so.
- igorhvr 6y ago
  Submitter (& author) here. I just changed the submission title to exactly match the original.
  - johncena33 6y ago
    May I ask why did you change the title to begin with?
    - igorhvr 6y ago
      I thought the new title better but I did not want to change the original (because I had already shared the link with friends), so I just changed when submitting. Should've gone with the original...
  - wildfire 6y ago
    1) force developers to rebuild common in other cloud environments, they just give you a longer runway / head's up on it 2) price increases true 3) shitty customer service same as azure and aws -- google, though, have a crap reputation to begin with. With the other two, it was a surprise. 4) continued existance of google cloud article is over a year old; and - frankly - aws is likely to spin-off from amazon sooner than google cloud being shutdown no sources, that is just my gut feel. The market is easily large enough to have 4 - 6 global players *AND* 2 - 3 regional / country-specific ones as well.
thayne 6y ago
I can't speak to Azure, but while AWS has a policy of never discontinuing services or features, even if they are replaced by something else, whereas GCP does discontinue entire services (although if it is generally available they have to give 12 months notice according to the terms of service).
- Crash0v3rid3 6y ago
  I’m not familiar with any GCP service being discontinued. Do you have any examples?
  - indymike 6y ago
    GCP (Google Cloud Print) was discontinued in 2020.
    - shiftpgdn 6y ago
      That isn't a Google Compute Platform product.
  - thayne 6y ago
    It never reached general availability, but remote-build-execution was discontinued.
    - hn_go_brrrrr 6y ago
      RBE was discontinued during alpha. They tried a thing, it didn't work out for some reason, so they decided not to bring it to market. This hardly fits the bill of the typical Google deprecation.
      - thayne 6y ago
        Is it really accurate to call it an alpha when there are paying customers?

astrostl 6y ago

> Admittedly, the original author's title of "Why I distrust Google Cloud more than AWS or Azure" much better describes their position than the editorialized title of the HN submitter ("Why Google Cloud is less trustworthy than AWS or Azure"). Agreed. What is with the retitling?

1cvmask 6y ago
Sometimes it is because of the title length limitations. I guess HN can could extend it a bit more by say 25 characters or so.
igorhvr 6y ago
Submitter (& author) here. I just changed the submission title to exactly match the original.
- johncena33 6y ago
  May I ask why did you change the title to begin with?
  - igorhvr 6y ago
    I thought the new title better but I did not want to change the original (because I had already shared the link with friends), so I just changed when submitting. Should've gone with the original...
- wildfire 6y ago
  1) force developers to rebuild common in other cloud environments, they just give you a longer runway / head's up on it 2) price increases true 3) shitty customer service same as azure and aws -- google, though, have a crap reputation to begin with. With the other two, it was a surprise. 4) continued existance of google cloud article is over a year old; and - frankly - aws is likely to spin-off from amazon sooner than google cloud being shutdown no sources, that is just my gut feel. The market is easily large enough to have 4 - 6 global players *AND* 2 - 3 regional / country-specific ones as well.

thayne 6y ago

I can't speak to Azure, but while AWS has a policy of never discontinuing services or features, even if they are replaced by something else, whereas GCP does discontinue entire services (although if it is generally available they have to give 12 months notice according to the terms of service).

Crash0v3rid3 6y ago
I’m not familiar with any GCP service being discontinued. Do you have any examples?
- indymike 6y ago
  GCP (Google Cloud Print) was discontinued in 2020.
  - shiftpgdn 6y ago
    That isn't a Google Compute Platform product.
- thayne 6y ago
  It never reached general availability, but remote-build-execution was discontinued.
  - hn_go_brrrrr 6y ago
    RBE was discontinued during alpha. They tried a thing, it didn't work out for some reason, so they decided not to bring it to market. This hardly fits the bill of the typical Google deprecation.
    - thayne 6y ago
      Is it really accurate to call it an alpha when there are paying customers?