You put a ton of effort into this post and it’s all consumer services.
We are talking about the Cloud.
We are talking about the Cloud.
In fact, if you read just a few posts up, you'll see that in my first message I made the exact point about how Amazon!=AWS just like Google!=GCP. And the rebuttal was that Amazon actually rarely kills products. That's what I was replying to.
If you want to say that Amazon's track record is irrelevant to AWS, just be consistent and apply the same reasoning to Azure and GCP.
Google has demonstrated a culture of killing off services. https://www.thestack.technology/google-cloud-iot-core-retire...
Amazon, on the consumer side has many canceled products. On the AWS side they have demonstrated a commitment to keeping old services alive.
So on a surface level, your analysis holds up. But where Amazon has earned some goodwill by supporting even barely used services, Google has not.
Perhaps they will given time, as GCP is fairly new. But when you are talking tens of millions of dollars in spend, reputation matters.