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Main businesses do fail (witness poor, beleaguered SourceForge). Meanwhile, Google's cloud ecosystem is a revenue-generator for the company; that does decrease the odds that it'll have the plug pulled.

I wonder how many people shy away from AWS on the thought that web services aren't Amazon's core business model.

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I agree, but some companies such as Twitter and Google have a track record. Time will tell.