> conflation of free Gmail/etc. consumer products with GCP.
* Google Domains
* Google Cloud IoT Core
* Jamboard
Also they increased Google Maps pricing by like 10x at one point, and they increased Cloud Storage prices pretty substantially last year too. Price increases can be just as impactful as killing a product. I don't think AWS has ever increased any prices or shut down any service (though quite a few are essentially zombies - SimpleDB, OpsWorks).
Then on the consumer side, Google have killed quite a few paid products. One that bit me was they shut down Google Cloud Print which killed the ability for me to print to my (cheap) printer from my phone. Besides that, there was Nest Secure, Stadia, etc. etc.
Google's reputation problem isn't just coming from their free consumer apps.
AWS just KILLED EC2!!! Well, EC2-classic. And they did so with two years of notice and support to transition all customers. Really a class act of migration. I'm not sure Google won't just send out an email on a Friday before a long weekend and then kill the servers the following Monday.
That one was such a long time ago when they were struggling to find PMF. I do my best to avoid Google bc I don’t trust them or their quality, but I think I’d give them a pass on the search appliance.
* Google Domains
* Google Cloud IoT Core
* Jamboard
Also they increased Google Maps pricing by like 10x at one point, and they increased Cloud Storage prices pretty substantially last year too. Price increases can be just as impactful as killing a product. I don't think AWS has ever increased any prices or shut down any service (though quite a few are essentially zombies - SimpleDB, OpsWorks).
Then on the consumer side, Google have killed quite a few paid products. One that bit me was they shut down Google Cloud Print which killed the ability for me to print to my (cheap) printer from my phone. Besides that, there was Nest Secure, Stadia, etc. etc.
Google's reputation problem isn't just coming from their free consumer apps.