[philjohn]

Came here to say the same thing.

I've started not to trust Google as a cloud offering because of their continued shedding of services. Look at AWS - they add things they know will fill a need, often because that need is present at Amazon, and as such I can't recall them retiring any of their portfolio.

Google instead take a scattergun approach, which would be fine if they actually interated and improved these services, but look at the mess they made of Google Code - great at first, then no massive new features after a while and they left it to languish.

[slyall]

Simpledb is a AWS product the don't promote much these days (it is often left off the list of products). I wouldn't be surprised to see a notice that they are turning it off at some point however.

The big difference is that it has real revenue from customers whereas "free" services are a lot more prone to corporate fashion