[Aeolun]

> I personally think it’s quite unlikely that they shutter the entire business and all the product lines

Have you paid any attention to actions taken by Google over the past 10’ish years?

If I’ve learned anything it’s that nothing is sacred.

I’d make sure I have a solid migration path.

[byteofbits]

I’ve watched Google’s behaviour towards its products for the 10 years cited and referenced it in my post above.

Reviewing the infamous https://killedbygoogle.com/ I don’t see much to draw the conclusion that Google kills enterprise products. Which products do you use to draw this inference or are you simply saying you believe the mentality they use for their consumer products would be used for their cloud products?

In either case, I do not think it’s impossible they kill GCP. Just that it is extremely unlikely and without historical precedent w.r.t their cloud business.

[Aeolun]

> without historical precedent w.r.t their cloud business

That’s not hard, considering they’ve existed for only a few years. In that time they’ve done plenty of things that make me feel like their behavior is questionable (the 10x price hike for maps API comes to mind)

[byteofbits]

Considering Google App Engine launched in 2008 and Compute Engine in 2012 I would argue it exceeds "a few years" and begins to form precedent.

I would also argue that it is not a reasonable comparison in this context to conflate pricing changes with deprecation.