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Re:Oracle Cloud is unreachable by us0r on Thursday March 11, 2021 @04:15AM (#26421966)
> 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]

Snapchat paying them $400 MILLION per year takes care of this issue. That's 1 company. A few jaw dropping others have popped up in S-1 filings.

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Re:Oracle Cloud is unreachable by capableweb on Thursday March 11, 2021 @04:25AM (#26422040)
So then it shouldn't be impossible for Google to go out and give potential customers some sort of guarantee that they'll be around? But still doesn't seem to happen, hence people hesitate.

And even if the entire GCP might never disappear, Google is famous for shutting things down so I could imagine people get upset when GCP is closing down individual features people are still using.

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Re:Oracle Cloud is unreachable by KptMarchewa on Thursday March 11, 2021 @09:34AM (#26424384)
>Google is famous for shutting things down

Google is famous for shutting down consumer services. It very rarely shuts down major business facing services.

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Re:Oracle Cloud is unreachable by reilly3000 on Thursday March 11, 2021 @04:23AM (#26422019)
Ya I don’t worry about GCP going away. As a B2B service, they have contracts with customers that would be very expensive for them to break. Also, their internal tools track very closely with GCP offerings AFAIK. The have found financial leverage in plowing profits into cloud CapEx, so renting out that gear is all incremental profit.
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