[temp667]

Tell that to folks building on the paid maps API's.

I don't think AWS has every really screwed anyone. My simpleDB kept running long after I even remembered it used simpledb! I can't even remember a price increase, much less a 10X gotcha one with no grandfathering! Ouch!

Google will kill your account, change pricing etc much more commonly than AWS. The nightmare of google+ and being forced to jam a profile onto everything - they give two sh** about user stability / happiness on some things if the command comes down to blow the house up which it seems to periodically.

[antonvs]

Google Maps API is still not a comparable kind of business. And Google+ is completely irrelevant.

> I don't think AWS has every really screwed anyone.

The apples-to-apples comparison is not to AWS, but to Amazon. There are plenty of complaints against Amazon for ways they've screwed shoppers, book authors, publishers, etc.

If you want to compare Google Cloud to AWS, you won't have nearly as much to complain about.

It's perfectly reasonable to say you don't want to deal with or depend on Google because they've screwed you in the past. But the claim that there's a serious risk that GCP will suddenly be discontinued is just silly.