Probably because Google doesn't have a good reputation at keeping products alive for long time?
... said on the post where Microsoft is deprecating a product.
Arguing that Google is better than Microsoft at managaging backwards compatibility and keeping things alive would be silly at best.
MS will delete your db and it's data, Google will delete Google Cloud in it's entirety.
In contrast to my comment above about Azure taking care of the people who pay the bills, GCP's design around the billing and understanding spend UX is absolutely the most hostile of the big 3. Their design choices around hardware reservations and aggregating resources in the bill that make it impossible to understand what cost what is frustrating to say the least.
I've found GCP to be extremely expensive bandwidth wise, however the network is also really good. So I suppose it's understandable that they'd charge a premium.
that's what Home Depot did, and they're a huge customer of GCP
Because Google Cloud don't care about their customers and have zero support. Srsly educate yourself on the horror stories about businesses built on Google Cloud having their account catastrophically, irrevocably deleted with zero explanation or ability to talk to anyone about it.
Azure is cheaper than GCP considerably for my usecases