[andybak]

Imagine if they'd never shut anything down.

People would be constantly popping up on HN repeating a different mantra about how bloated and unfocused they were (although arguably Google manages to be bloated and unfocused despite the shutdowns - but that's another debates)

Most of the Google shutdown's were understandable whether you like them or not.

In any case - it's getting tedious to hear the same comment on every Google related post. They shut things down. We get it.

[psergeant]

    > People would be constantly popping
    > up on HN repeating a different mantra
    > about how bloated and unfocused they
    > were

I don't see that for AWS.

[ktta]

All the services on AWS fulfill a need. Google often starts projects without direct profitability in their mind. Note that I'm talking about Google as a whole and not Google Cloud.

I'd say Google is a lot more liberal in starting new projects than any other company of its size. Look around in the news and you'll see how analysts comment about how Google has no 'direction' and is burning money.

[Boothroid]

I'm actually starting to find it quite amusing.