[thayne]

I can't speak to Azure, but while AWS has a policy of never discontinuing services or features, even if they are replaced by something else, whereas GCP does discontinue entire services (although if it is generally available they have to give 12 months notice according to the terms of service).

[Crash0v3rid3]

I’m not familiar with any GCP service being discontinued. Do you have any examples?

[thayne]

It never reached general availability, but remote-build-execution was discontinued.

[hn_go_brrrrr]

RBE was discontinued during alpha. They tried a thing, it didn't work out for some reason, so they decided not to bring it to market. This hardly fits the bill of the typical Google deprecation.

[thayne]

Is it really accurate to call it an alpha when there are paying customers?

[Clewza313]

Not familiar with RBE in particular, but as a rule alpha/preview services are free.

[rpdillon]

The RBE alpha was not free.

[indymike]

GCP (Google Cloud Print) was discontinued in 2020.

[shiftpgdn]

That isn't a Google Compute Platform product.