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GCP products have a much better track record than Google consumer products when it comes to support since there are usually enterprise customers with multi-year
by rockostrich 3y ago
GCP products have a much better track record than Google consumer products when it comes to support since there are usually enterprise customers with multi-year contracts worth tens, if not hundreds, of millions of dollars using them.
- callalex 3y agoThat’s what AppEngine customers thought.
- weitendorf 3y agoI worked on AppEngine (well, Serverless Compute) at Google for over 4 years and left on Friday. Did something happen to AppEngine in the last week?
- callalex 3y agoI’m talking about the pricing disaster that happened in 2017/2018 where user prices went up from 10x-100x because Google wanted to kill the product without actually killing it.
- tempnow987 3y agoDidn't they also hammer folks using google maps in a business / cloud context? I was also an old app engine user, but bailed ages ago (original app engine).
- jerrygenser 3y agoIoT is one example of a big backbone service that was sunset.
- endisneigh 3y agoIt had barely any usage though from what I can tell from searching about it. Not that it’s any solace to those affected.
- marcinzm 3y agoAI Platform is a recent example that’s been deprecated.
- rockostrich 3y agoWasn't it just superseded by Vertex AI? According to the banner announcement in the docs: > All the functionality of legacy AI Platform and new features are available on the Vertex AI platform.