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I don't know, seems to be mostly filled with speculation and anecdotes. I can find similar anecdotes of bad behavior by Amzon, for example claims of using AWS to steal its users' business ideas[1].

Admittedly, the original author's title of "Why I distrust Google Cloud more than AWS or Azure" much better describes their position than the editorialized title of the HN submitter ("Why Google Cloud is less trustworthy than AWS or Azure").

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23929044

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> Admittedly, the original author's title of "Why I distrust Google Cloud more than AWS or Azure" much better describes their position than the editorialized title of the HN submitter ("Why Google Cloud is less trustworthy than AWS or Azure").

Agreed. What is with the retitling?

Sometimes it is because of the title length limitations. I guess HN can could extend it a bit more by say 25 characters or so.

Submitter (& author) here. I just changed the submission title to exactly match the original.

May I ask why did you change the title to begin with?

I thought the new title better but I did not want to change the original (because I had already shared the link with friends), so I just changed when submitting. Should've gone with the original...

1) force developers to rebuild

common in other cloud environments, they just give you a longer runway / head's up on it

2) price increases

true

3) shitty customer service

same as azure and aws -- google, though, have a crap reputation to begin with. With the other two, it was a surprise.

4) continued existance of google cloud

article is over a year old; and - frankly - aws is likely to spin-off from amazon sooner than google cloud being shutdown

no sources, that is just my gut feel.

The market is easily large enough to have 4 - 6 global players *AND* 2 - 3 regional / country-specific ones as well.

I can't speak to Azure, but while AWS has a policy of never discontinuing services or features, even if they are replaced by something else, whereas GCP does discontinue entire services (although if it is generally available they have to give 12 months notice according to the terms of service).

I’m not familiar with any GCP service being discontinued. Do you have any examples?

GCP (Google Cloud Print) was discontinued in 2020.

That isn't a Google Compute Platform product.

It never reached general availability, but remote-build-execution was discontinued.

RBE was discontinued during alpha. They tried a thing, it didn't work out for some reason, so they decided not to bring it to market. This hardly fits the bill of the typical Google deprecation.

Is it really accurate to call it an alpha when there are paying customers?

Not familiar with RBE in particular, but as a rule alpha/preview services are free.

The RBE alpha was not free.

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