[ra7]

I don't think shutting down products applies to GCP services. Even if it did, it doesn't explain the $858M loss. They are spending big on something to "catch up", I'm just not sure what it is.

[RandomBK]

IIRC it's mostly incentives for large companies to jump ship

[ushakov]

> shutting down products applies to GCP services

they regularly deprecate old API versions in favour of new ones, which are not backwards compatible and usually more expensive

any time Google Cloud APIs change you have to update your code

and they break stuff, introduce bugs more often that you'd expect and prioritize new features over fixes (see bugtracker for confirmation)

this is why i'm never again touching GCP