Re:Ask HN: What is your cloud strategy vis-à-vis Google Cloud?
by Aeolun on Sunday October 02, 2022 @04:49AM
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> without historical precedent w.r.t their cloud business
That’s not hard, considering they’ve existed for only a few years. In that time they’ve done plenty of things that make me feel like their behavior is questionable (the 10x price hike for maps API comes to mind)
Re:Ask HN: What is your cloud strategy vis-à-vis Google Cloud?
by byteofbits on Sunday October 02, 2022 @01:38PM
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Considering Google App Engine launched in 2008 and Compute Engine in 2012 I would argue it exceeds "a few years" and begins to form precedent.
I would also argue that it is not a reasonable comparison in this context to conflate pricing changes with deprecation.
Reviewing the infamous https://killedbygoogle.com/ I don’t see much to draw the conclusion that Google kills enterprise products. Which products do you use to draw this inference or are you simply saying you believe the mentality they use for their consumer products would be used for their cloud products?
In either case, I do not think it’s impossible they kill GCP. Just that it is extremely unlikely and without historical precedent w.r.t their cloud business.