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Has Google EOL any Cloud products? I don't remember any being shutdown recently at least. Since these are money-making products (unlike maybe other good customer-facing products), there's a lot less reasons to shut things down IMO

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yes... albeit its an odd one.. a few months after the switch out from Diane to Thomas on lead exec.. they shutdown google hire which was in the gcp portfolio https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/28/20837004/google-hire-next...

afaics its called cloud talent in the console now

Even a small thing like that is a great example of how Google and AWS treat backwards compatibility fundamentally differently. AWS really doesn't EOL things, no matter how 'minor' the impact would be. Look at SimpleDB - it was launched in 2007 and has very clearly been deprecated in favor of DynamoDB[0]. It's not even in the console(!). Yet, it's still operational and usable with the AWS CLI. Everything about it screams "could have been EOL'd years ago", yet AWS dogs on in supporting it and everything else it's ever released until the end of time.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_SimpleDB#Relationship_t...

Ah true, although like you said Hire was more a tangent product to G Suite, so not exactly Cloud related, but still business-facing. Thanks for reminding me

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