[jasonjei]

``Google Cloud CTO Urs Hölzle has said publicly that `One day, this could be bigger than ads. Certainly, in terms of market potential, it is.' Diane Greene now leads the division that includes GCP---from our perspective it’s nice to know that the cloud division has a seat on the Google Board of Directors.''

It seems that if Google believes in GCP being almost as big as AdWords, the likelihood of GCP Compute being shut down is as likely as GMail for Business being shut down. Not saying that it couldn't happen, but with Spotify and Quizlet using GCP instances, I find it highly unlikely the compute platform would go away, especially with paying users. A free product on the other hand could die on a whim.