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I mean maybe I’m not their dream customer or whatever, but we’re happy with google cloud for our purposes - GKE, CloudSQL, Redis.

I really enjoyed the essay and surely is some truth, but these products have all been pretty good for us.

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No doubt what is there works and works well.

The issue is that developer confidence is very low due to google being in a never ending relentless drive to cancel stuff.

With 3 services, and Google randomly disabling accounts perhaps 5% of the time for running customers, you have a 15% chance of having your business taken out by a buggy Google algorithm each year. That gives your business a half-life of 4.25 years, approximately, before you get the Google hammer-of-death.

Of course, those might count as one product, in which case, it's 13 years. I'm not sure how Google's algorithms work. Does it detect suspicious behavior per-service or per-cloud-account?

Ironically, so few people use Google in production that successful production use IS anomalous behavior.

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