Google Cloud Domains is to be fully deprecated as part of Google Domains sale
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A big part of selecting a cloud service provider is trust. You have to trust that you can build your stuff on top of theirs and they aren't going to pull the rug out from under you. Right now I don't know how anyone picking a cloud service provider can confidently go with GCP, and the only ones I see moving to GCP are those that get massive discounts for doing so.
I'm making a bet that in 10 years, GCP will be no more and most likely sucked up by either Azure of AWS.
There has been one io_uring CVE for the linux 6.x series. That’s worse than zero, but local linux kernel exploits are pretty common.
Anyway, this sort of rug pulling for stuff like GKE makes it clear they’re not willing to stand by already-released products.
Edit: Also, it’s worth pointing out that the kernels for chromebooks and gke are single-tenant, so, if disabling io_uring really is necessary, it should be a customer controlled knob.
If people are running kernel exploits on your laptop / server containers, you’re probably already screwed.
On the other hand, from the beginning it has never felt like they wanted to be in the cloud services business and GCP has only ever existed for the aforementioned face saving reasons. It has just never fit with their company culture of: NIH all the tech, have users not customers, and place what’s best for managers’ careers above what’s best for the company.
However, losing google cloud domains is hard to defend, and makes promoting GCP hard.
Any bets on how long until Google Cloud is fully deprecated? If I was a customer I'd be very nervous right about now.
Actions speak louder than words.
I’m still wary of trusting aws. They discontinued cloud drive, and blocked existing users’ backup setups.
(The current service of that name does not support the same things the old service did.)
Then again, that customer is probably a big spender, so the account manager can rest his damaged limbs on piles of money.
> Would it shock you to learn that SDB is still running and working for a handful of customers?
Not in the slightest.
So far.
Amazon Cloud Drive is/was a consumer product. AWS’s legacy support reputation has been (as others have noted) incredible.
Seriously, customers don’t care about the internal nuance of how things are organized. They care that a very foundational piece of a cloud service provider will suddenly be not available.
It seems like you're saying that since Cloud Domains relies on Google Domains which wasn't organizationally part of GCP (even though there's no way a user would have known that) it is acceptable to shut down Cloud Domains when Google Domains is shut down and that doesn't mean that google isn't committed to supporting GCP.
This argument is just completely baffling to me.
If it turns out that Compute Engine relies on some internal services that aren't organizationally part of GCP does that mean it's fine for google to shut down Compute Engine as well?
It’s basic internet infrastructure and they’re not going to own a piece of it, even to automate customer onboarding.
I can’t imagine counting on google for anything anymore. And they’re inexplicably weird in this regard.
GCP is part toy, part science experiment. I am expecting it to be discontinued in the near future. I don't know any medium or large business that puts all their eggs in the GCP basket - or if they do they usually have some sort of deal directly with Google.
If customers start to run their own equivalent of SageMaker (or whatever BS the Azure equivalent is) on self-managed GCP clusters for a fraction of the price, cloud competition could finally get interesting.
It should be trivial to transfer your domains there if you don't want to deal with Squarespace.
Close Google cloud.
Close everything that’s not maps, ads/search, YouTube, chrome, gmail.
Minimize costs.
Just feed that money straight to its investors.
Its the end of the road for googles efforts at innovation.