[boulos]

Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud.

That's precisely the point: don't use Betas in production, unless you're okay with that. Do you have a suggestion on wording for the help text to reiterate that more clearly?

The background here is that a Beta product is still in flux. In particular, it might not be GA yet because it hasn't yet met its internal SLO for enough time, proving that it can consistently meet the SLO for its SLA.

While we could let products ship randomly, since SLAs "just" mean we pay you if we don't meet them, we choose not to. Customers expect that if a product says "this is our SLO/SLA" that we intend to hit that.

We hear you though; we don't like super long Beta durations any more than you do. Sometimes though, we reached Beta and didn't realize we hadn't met the quality bar we wanted.