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Re:Google cuts jobs at cloud-computing group by manigandham on Friday February 14, 2020 @08:38PM (#22332425)
AppEngine is just one product in Google Cloud, and the first they released in 2008. Of course there will be new versions and eventually new products that are recommended like VMs, GKE, Cloud Functions, Cloud Run, and more.

It's still supported and has plenty of usage so I don't see it as "hanging by a thread" unless you have more data than things that people said but apparently you forgot?

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Re:Google cuts jobs at cloud-computing group by busterarm on Friday February 14, 2020 @09:16PM (#22332644)
https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/deprecations
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Re:Google cuts jobs at cloud-computing group by kccqzy on Saturday February 15, 2020 @04:11AM (#22334167)
So what? I can give you a point-by-point rebuttal of everything on that page.

> The standalone legacy SDK and appcfg tooling

Just use the newer `gcloud` command-line tool.

> Go 1.9 (GA) and Node.js 8 (GA)

Upgrade your language man. This is PaaS. You're expected to keep your app up to date.

> Admin API v1beta4/v1beta5

These are beta versions of the API. Why don't use migrate to the GA versions?

Etc, etc. In fact the large number of deprecations on that page only shows how rapidly new features and runtimes and frameworks are being developed to replace old ones.

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Re:Google cuts jobs at cloud-computing group by scarface74 on Saturday February 15, 2020 @08:38AM (#22335213)
While AWS has deprecated runtimes, if you have an old running version of Node for instance on lambda, it will run forever. It will force you to upgrade to a newer version the next time you update the lambda.

As far as I know, AWS has never discontinued a service or turned off an API. They may deprecate a feature or make it unavailable for new accounts or regions.

Heck AWS still supports running an EC2 instance outside of a VPC if your account is old enough,SimpleDB , and using S3 as a BitTorrent seed for old regions.

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