Re:Dear Google Cloud: Your Deprecation Policy Is Killing You
by jto1218 on Saturday August 15, 2020 @09:05AM
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the main thing here though is the older things you’re moving away from in those cases are still around. AWS didn’t remove classic load balancers and force you onto application load balancers.
Re:Dear Google Cloud: Your Deprecation Policy Is Killing You
by rikroots on Saturday August 15, 2020 @09:21AM
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Agreed. But they did deprecate EC2-Classic.
"The EC2-Classic platform was introduced in the original release of Amazon EC2. If you created your AWS account after 2013-12-04, it does not support EC2-Classic."
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ec2-clas...
Re:Dear Google Cloud: Your Deprecation Policy Is Killing You
by zwily on Saturday August 15, 2020 @11:46AM
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Yeah but this is the customer-friendly way to deprecate - let existing users keep using the old method indefinitely, new users have to use the new way.
Re:Dear Google Cloud: Your Deprecation Policy Is Killing You
by calcifer on Saturday August 15, 2020 @12:26PM
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> after 2013-12-04
That was 4 years after VPC was launched. So yes, while they do deprecate stuff on the rarest of occasions, they still give you much, much more time than GCP ever did.
Also, EC2-Classic is still available if you reach out to your TAM with a really good reason.
Also: classic vs application load balancers - especially the health checks. That one drove me nuts for weeks!
AWS never seems to "deprecate" anything, but they do enjoy adding services which are very similar to other services but guaranteed to trip people (ie: me) up when it comes to the buried-in-the-documentation details.