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I didn't realize people didn't like GCP. What’s wrong with it? It’s far creamier than AWS in my experience.

It's from Google, they deprecate things every 6 months including APIs your app is using, if you don't follow your app will be down pretty quickly. AWS nearly never do breaking changes.

AWS GameSparks. Being shut down end of November and bringing down one of my favorite games with it, because the devs were foolish enough to believe what you believe, that AWS sticks with its products.

It's AWS page says Preview, meaning it has never gotten to an official stable release. It's like using a beta/rc product, there is an explicit warning this is not the final version and it might not get anywhere.

Please provide a source. My internet sleuthing is failing me at the moment.

https://liquidbit.com/killer-queen-black-update%EF%BF%BC/

Killer Queen Black is shutting down due to GameSpark being sunsetted. The game was released 2019.

But since Firebase is from Google now, anyone who worries about Google deprecating products have equal worries whether Firebase is based on GCP or not.

I think it’s a HN bubble thing.

Outside of HN, I find developers (at least in Europe) often prefer GCP and businesses have full faith in the offering because of the Google stamp.

For Azure I have yet to find a developer who likes it, but businesses are drawn to it due to the packaging with other Microsoft services (eg you buy office 364, teams, Active Directory and Azure together in a Enterprise package) and businesses have full faith in the Microsoft stamp of approval.

Same, of all the people I've interacted with, it's AWS and GCP which are liked (AWS mostly for features, GCP more for UX/DX), Azure is at best accepted and the only reasons anyone uses are "we were already a MS partner/shop".

On my corporate world bubble in Europe, it is usually either AWS or Azure, nothing else comes into the picture unless required by the customer.

Maybe the fact that we are a Java/.NET shop has some influence on it as well.

The more I ponder this post, the more it rings true with my experience. Insightful.

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