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Re:Oracle Cloud is unreachable by cmeacham98 on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @08:59PM (#26419240)
> I'm wary about GCP because Google hasn't issued any kind of promissory statement that GCP won't end up on the [Google Graveyard](https://killedbygoogle.com/)

Isn't that literally what an SLA is, a (contractually) guaranteed level of service for some interval of time?

Re:Oracle Cloud is unreachable by DaiPlusPlus on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @09:03PM (#26419267)
Google's GCP SLAs are 99.95% per month[1]. There's no mention of any guarantee that the GCP Cloud nor that specific GCP Products (like App Engine) will be supported for, say, 10+ years from now (well, 10+ years is unreasonable, but something like "at least 3 years, and with 2 years' notice of any planned discontinuation" would be nice).

[1]: https://cloud.google.com/appengine/sla

Re:Oracle Cloud is unreachable by cmeacham98 on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @09:09PM (#26419319)
Those are the standard SLAs but I presume you could negotiate a better one assuming you're willing to pay? I don't know what the cost for that would be though.
Re:Oracle Cloud is unreachable by Clewza313 on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @09:04PM (#26419275)
Not really: an SLA for a service doesn't preclude the deprecation of the entire service.
Re:Oracle Cloud is unreachable by XorNot on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @09:01PM (#26419258)
Yes but it's also why those are a lot shorter. If Google has been signing 10 year horizon SLAs, that'd be big news.
Re:Oracle Cloud is unreachable by Clewza313 on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @09:05PM (#26419280)
Re:Oracle Cloud is unreachable by XorNot on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @11:17PM (#26420165)
That press release doesn't say anything about Google signing an SLA that commits them to 10 years of service availability.
Re:Oracle Cloud is unreachable by floatingatoll on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @10:22PM (#26419809)
Those do not require that the services guaranteed contractually remain available to other customers for use.
Re:Oracle Cloud is unreachable by joshuamorton on Thursday March 11, 2021 @01:16AM (#26420857)
But it generally makes business sense to deprecate a system even though you need to maintain it for 2 customers for another 7 years?