[lawrenceyan]

Mostly because people don't really use any of the products Amazon releases at scale. There's a reason why it's called Google scale and not Amazon scale.

Also because as humans, we're generally more inclined to dogpile onto the Goliath and root for the David. Underdogs almost always get treated more leniently.

[marcinzm]

>Mostly because people don't really use any of the products Amazon releases at scale.

AWS would beg to differ.

However, Amazon has been very good at not getting rid of AWS services so it's reputation is that it's at scale services are going to stay safe.

[lawrenceyan]

Maybe to clarify better, it's the bunches of ancillary products and services I'm talking about. Core items like AWS and Google Cloud are of course by definition going to require an inherent scalability to be meaningful.

[marcinzm]

AWS is not a single service but a large collection of separate services that interconnect. Some of which are quiet old and not exactly cutting edge. Yet they don't get deprecated.

[lawrenceyan]

You could say the exact same thing about Google Cloud. What I'm more talking about is stuff like Google Keep, Docs, Slides, Sheets, Kubernetes, Istio, etc. etc.

[polishTar]

For what it's worth, Amazon is the same size as Google now (technically a little bit larger by market cap).

[oarsinsync]

Google doesn't really have much of a retail division though, and is almost entirely services-based. When services disappear, the time and effort you've invested into them disappear.

When a shop stops selling a product, you can still keep using the product you have. They don't take it away from you.