Google also shoves the google business suite into the cloud service numbers to inflate them.

As does MS with Azure and Office 365.

Keep in mind that cloud uses the same data centers etc as the rest to G, and is a minority. The exact accounting of cost can be somewhat flexible.

> They have a tendency to simply discard products left and right.

I guess this site could be of interest to some, to have a look at some of the products: https://killedby.tech/

Google has a separate site here as well: https://killedbygoogle.com/

Microsoft also has a site like that: https://killedbymicrosoft.info/

I tried looking up one for Amazon or AWS projects, but only unrelated news articles came up.

I don't really have a horse in the race, though, since all three of the big platforms (and others like Oracle Cloud) are outside of my price point and all my personal projects run on smaller simple VPS providers. From what I can tell, there is not a single large corporation out there with the commitment to never kill a product of theirs and support everything in perpetuity.

> Except how profitable is Google's cloud? It lost 480 million last quarter.

If growth rates continue, in 5 years, it's on pace to be one of the most hundred profitable companies in the world...

That's like when I made my first sale, if my infinity % growth rate continues, I'll be infinite rich.

Except Google Cloud has been on a pretty steady trajectory for about 15 years now...