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Yeah, like come on. Amazon kills things when they're truly truly unpopular, and does everything they can to grandfather paying customers on legacy offerings.

Google kills off things that are a maintenance burden for them, they dont care who is using it.

Amazon has their pathologies, but killing off beloved services isn't really one of them

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AWS is notorious for keeping services around well past their expiration date simply to uphold their promise not to break customers. It’s admirable, but having worked on one of those effectively dead services while building a new service literally thousands of times more successful, it was flotsam we couldn’t wait to outsource to our economical, frugal peers in Bangalore.

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