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Google has raised prices on all sorts of things - I think AWS is one with rep for not raising prices.

Maps API's I think went up pretty big time on google side.

> Maps API's I think went up pretty big time on google side.

There were even several posts on HN around that time period of personal projects (maybe even companies) going under because of the price change.

Yeah - here's some coverage.

https://geoawesomeness.com/developers-up-in-arms-over-google...

That plus shutdowns of things - google is not most stable

That's fair, though I'd consider APIs to be a different beast than a cloud IaaS sort of thing. Maybe that's the distinction worth making, IaaS vs SaaS or similar. But fair point either way.

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