[madboston]

Probably because Google doesn't have a good reputation at keeping products alive for long time?

[latchkey]

... said on the post where Microsoft is deprecating a product.

[tuwtuwtuwtuw]

Arguing that Google is better than Microsoft at managaging backwards compatibility and keeping things alive would be silly at best.

[x86_64Ubuntu]

MS will delete your db and it's data, Google will delete Google Cloud in it's entirety.