[mikymoothrowa]

This has been my experience too: Google Apps/GCP might have marginally or even substantially better products than Azure/365 but Microsoft almost never kills products and force you to migrate to their newer offering and they have excellent support folks

[leokennis]

Microsoft has learned through the decades where you can make big bucks: charge enterprises through the roof for “basic” stuff, and in return promise them to _not_break_their_shit_ and help them (for even more money) if they screw up themselves.

Now with Azure, basically they’re making that available to smaller scale players as well.

Meanwhile Google operate GCP in fundamentally the same way they operate free Gmail accounts: hey, this stuff is super neat! So neat actually you bunch of freeloaders are not allowed to complain if this free and neat thing spectacularly breaks once in a while! Wait…you pay for this stuff? Naaah!