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Re:Alphabet earnings show Google Cloud on $10B run rate by nkozyra on Thursday February 06, 2020 @08:30AM (#22255786)
Google's reputation for killing services is wholly earned, but there's a difference between a service and an offering within the service. Most of the GCP services that were there before and gone today have just been renamed or consolidated.

One could argue also that AWS has too many often esoteric services, and if they focused on making some of them more feature-full the service would improve (disclosure we use both and I think both are perfectly good cloud services).

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Re:Alphabet earnings show Google Cloud on $10B run rate by ceejayoz on Thursday February 06, 2020 @08:51AM (#22255907)
> Google's reputation for killing services is wholly earned, but there's a difference between a service and an offering within the service.

No, I don't think there really is.

With AWS, I've got full confidence that if I engineer something on a service like SimpleDB, it will keep chugging along on the AWS side long after my side stops working. I don't have that same confidence in Google.

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