Re:Deploy your side-projects at scale for basically nothing ...
by tpetry on Sunday January 12, 2020 @01:51PM
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Do you have examples of discontinued Google Cloud Platform products?
Re:Deploy your side-projects at scale for basically nothing ...
by gumby on Sunday January 12, 2020 @05:42PM
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You don't need to ask me: Google provides their own handy list of examples (some like messaging API show up under other names like XMPP; others don't appear on this list because they were marketed differently, e.g. Google Print):
Re:Deploy your side-projects at scale for basically nothing ...
by manigandham on Monday January 20, 2020 @10:02PM
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Those are just features of a single product (appengine) which has been around for more than a decade and through several generations. Every product under every cloud vendor has API and feature changes over the lifetime.
GCP has never had a major product line shutdown. The only thing that comes close is Google Maps API pricing changes, but technically the service is still there and has even more functionality.
Re:Deploy your side-projects at scale for basically nothing ...
by dodobirdlord on Sunday January 12, 2020 @05:57PM
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Many of those seem to have been around for well more than the 1 year deprecation minimum, and most of them appear to be some combination of Alpha/Beta products or language runtimes. Alpha/Beta products aren't really on-topic, and the language runtime stuff doesn't look all that different from how AWS does runtime deprecations.
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/runtime-support...
When Google demonstrates it. They've already discontinued various parts of their cloud product.
True, they are unlikely to shut down gmail, search, or Android.
On the other hand google's cloud is a money loser that has slipped to a distant #4 in the cloud rankings.
But like many of Google's revenue-generating products it exists to show Wall Street that they have an increasingly diversified revenue stream (I think advertising is "down" to around 87%). They have lots of bets to try an improve this but little to show for it.
They did recently commit $2B to making GCP a player but I suspect that if that doesn't show results by the end of 2020, investment in this sector will fall precipitously.