Google heavily bet on Google Plus, and they still left it to rot and shut it down. GCP closing would be much bigger than Reader, but not that much bigger than Plus.

I don’t see how it’s the same scale. Dropping GCP would hugely disrupt other companies’ operations, not just users’ social media habits.

Aye. I can migrate my social media activities to another platform, but migrating my company's infrastructure would take years and cost millions.

We could either do it fast and have revenue impacting events, or slow and at higher labor and opportunity costs.

Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but it was already leaked that Google attached funding strings to GCP growth targets.

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/google-brass-set-202...

The idea of giving up on GCP because it wasn’t the highest profit cloud provider is an interesting idea, I honestly don’t believe it. As if there would be a call. “we’re only number 2 in cloud computing so we are shutting down”. Does google really make that kind of decision. It feels like giving up on the internet because they didn’t win.

Look at every other Google product decision ever. It's a lens through which to evaluate the "GCP 2023 leak".

"Unlocked" article:

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/google-brass-set-202...

Paywalled :-(

Agreed, GCP EOL is one of the few things that would piss me off enough to leave Gsuite and the rest of Google's services.