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You put a ton of effort into this post and it’s all consumer services. We are talking about the Cloud.

• jsnell 3y ago
  No, we aren't. Everybody complaining about Google having a reputation for killing products is talking about their consumer products. In fact, if you read just a few posts up, you'll see that in my first message I made the exact point about how Amazon!=AWS just like Google!=GCP. And the rebuttal was that Amazon actually rarely kills products. That's what I was replying to. If you want to say that Amazon's track record is irrelevant to AWS, just be consistent and apply the same reasoning to Azure and GCP.
  • imwillofficial 3y ago
    This is a good point. But I'd like to dig deeper than that. Google has demonstrated a culture of killing off services. https://www.thestack.technology/google-cloud-iot-core-retired-killed-by-google/ https://www.thestack.technology/google-cloud-iot-core-retire... Amazon, on the consumer side has many canceled products. On the AWS side they have demonstrated a commitment to keeping old services alive. So on a surface level, your analysis holds up. But where Amazon has earned some goodwill by supporting even barely used services, Google has not. Perhaps they will given time, as GCP is fairly new. But when you are talking tens of millions of dollars in spend, reputation matters.
  • redditor98654 3y ago
    What about Google Cloud IOT?