Don't think I see much in terms of new content here so to add an anecdote about a deprecation post-dating the OP: My wife and I created an app using the GCP Ma

Don't think I see much in terms of new content here so to add an anecdote about a deprecation post-dating the OP: My wife and I created an app using the GCP Maps Platform for Unity (or some name similar to it, it was definitely a GCP project) 2-3 years ago. It was for an exhibition, not a long term project though there were aspirations to maybe do something like that. But exhibition ended, and a year or so later the API was sunsetted. Fast forward to just last week, phones have changed since then, and she wanted to rebuild the app to demo it. I had to say nope, API's gone... But we're lucky to have not actually gone forward with trying to build a business on this despite there definitely must have been people that did and had to migrate to self hosting by force. Still I use GCP, the UX compared to AWS is just much better, both the APIs (i.e. Terraform) and console (no region!!!). I do know the typical Googler personality and suspect server features like Cloud Run are safe while anything too close to application like analytics is at risk and I'll generally avoid it. I do wonder where auth falls on this spectrum, I'd like to avoid auth0 etc since just too expensive, but it is a bit hard to trust after seeing a shutdown of an app feature.