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Re:I think GCP is better than AWS – by Fernando Villalba by jsnell on Thursday October 26, 2023 @12:49PM (#38028272)
No, we aren't. Everybody complaining about Google having a reputation for killing products is talking about their consumer products.

In fact, if you read just a few posts up, you'll see that in my first message I made the exact point about how Amazon!=AWS just like Google!=GCP. And the rebuttal was that Amazon actually rarely kills products. That's what I was replying to.

If you want to say that Amazon's track record is irrelevant to AWS, just be consistent and apply the same reasoning to Azure and GCP.

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Re:I think GCP is better than AWS – by Fernando Villalba by imwillofficial on Thursday October 26, 2023 @05:23PM (#38031873)
This is a good point. But I'd like to dig deeper than that.

Google has demonstrated a culture of killing off services. https://www.thestack.technology/google-cloud-iot-core-retire...

Amazon, on the consumer side has many canceled products. On the AWS side they have demonstrated a commitment to keeping old services alive.

So on a surface level, your analysis holds up. But where Amazon has earned some goodwill by supporting even barely used services, Google has not.

Perhaps they will given time, as GCP is fairly new. But when you are talking tens of millions of dollars in spend, reputation matters.

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Re:I think GCP is better than AWS – by Fernando Villalba by redditor98654 on Friday October 27, 2023 @07:07AM (#38037020)
What about Google Cloud IOT?
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