[RedSocks112]

Google have some pretty good deprecation policies in place with regard to sunsetting their Cloud offering. I recall when I last looked (for appengine a couple of years ago) it equated to a promise to keep the service running for about 3 years. Doing a quick check of terms now, it seems like this has been updated to:

"Google will use commercially reasonable efforts to continue to operate those Services versions and features identified at https://cloud.google.com/terms/deprecation without these changes for at least one year after that announcement, unless (as Google determines in its reasonable good faith judgment):" https://cloud.google.com/terms/

Not great, but a year is a long enough time to migrate away. That being said, my recent experience (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8784356) has prompted me to migrate away asap.

[narrator]

I personally wouldn't use the Google cloud because I've had the experience when interacting with Google APIs that API stability is not important to them. The Adwords api used to change every few months and old versions would break. This is not convenient for running a production system.

[craigvn]

3 years is not pretty good. Will only operate a product for 1 year after announcement it is being shut down. That is not good, it is laughably bad.