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Re:Google and IBM still trying desperately to move cloud mar... by scarface74 on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @06:38AM (#19152292)
As far as I know, AWS has never abandoned a service. They deprecate services and occasionally make services unavailable for new accounts.
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Re:Google and IBM still trying desperately to move cloud mar... by tyingq on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @06:48AM (#19152336)
SimpleDB is probably a good example. You can find 5 year old threads discussing whether Amazon is going to kill it. But it appears to still be there.
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Re:Google and IBM still trying desperately to move cloud mar... by bpicolo on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @08:11AM (#19152740)
The business value they’ve gained by earning the trust to not kill services is far higher than their cost to keep some old things in maintenance mode, I assume
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Re:Google and IBM still trying desperately to move cloud mar... by manigandham on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @06:08PM (#19158048)
SimpleDB is still used by Amazon's own services, it's not going anywhere.
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Re:Google and IBM still trying desperately to move cloud mar... by ComputerGuru on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @07:13AM (#19152444)
Technically Amazon and not AWS but they deprecated then removed two separate payment APIs one after the other (SimplePay and another).

It’s the reason we haven’t adopted the latest replacement. Why bother?

Edit: thanks, it was indeed FPS.

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Re:Google and IBM still trying desperately to move cloud mar... by vishnugupta on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @07:25AM (#19152504)
> another

I was in a team that worked on "another" :-). Some of the best memories of my professional life were formed during that period! At launch that was indeed as part of AWS. However it then came under Amazon Payments entity due to legal reasons. Felt sad to see it retired though[1]

[1] https://forums.aws.amazon.com/ann.jspa?annID=3045

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Re:Google and IBM still trying desperately to move cloud mar... by PaulHoule on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @09:37AM (#19153365)
I think payment APIs have all kinds of social and legal problems associated with them that go beyond the technical.
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