[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.