Re:Google May Have to Get Used to Third Place in the Cloud
by scarface74 on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @05:45PM
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And if you have a really old account you can still use an instance outside of a VPC. I’ve never heard of any service that AWS has just outright abandoned.
Re:Google May Have to Get Used to Third Place in the Cloud
by mooreds on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @11:22PM
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I used to teach AWS courses and had the same experience. I haven't heard of any service that has been disabled for an existing account.
Yes, you are strongly discouraged from using some services (simple db) by them hiding it. Yes, new accounts can't use certain services (ec2 classic). Yes, some old features cost more than newer better features (rrs s3).
But I wasn't able to point to any AWS service that had been shut down.
Re:Google May Have to Get Used to Third Place in the Cloud
by mooreds on Thursday November 15, 2018 @10:26AM
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BTW, if someone can, would love to hear about it.
Also, to be fair, I don't know of any Google Cloud Service that has been shut down (as opposed to consumer facing Google services), but haven't been paying as much attention to that service.
Re:Google May Have to Get Used to Third Place in the Cloud
by kenhwang on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @08:32PM
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We have a really old account, we still create instances in classic to this day. Every now and then we get some really bizarre problems that could be attributed to "account is ancient".
Maybe not forever, but some things do live for a very long time. Amazon SimpleDB has been deprecated for over 5 years and Amazon works hard to discourage people from using it in any new applications... but it's still available and will continue to be available for the foreseeable future.