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Perhaps taking your experience with compose.io and applying it to all fifty-or-so services listed in this page is a bit excessive? Surely, Google Cloud isn't going to turn around and delete your data from its Datastore. It has an SLA, and I'm fairly sure the terms of service do not cover Google deleting your data at will in case you haven't passed the free tier.

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My trust of cloud for many things has dropped markedly, unless it's some form of private cloud.

Google has a long history of pulling the plug on things. Even successful things. Basecamp went from always going to offer a free tier to $99 a month cheapest (well only) tier. Now add in the countless acquisistions of "We're delighted to announce we got bought. Oh the service that got us there? It's dead. Please bugger off. Thanks for the exciting journey" style.

Granted for a fair number even paying wouldn't save you.

1. Google can at any time close your account for "suspicious activity". Good luck finding a support person to talk to then.

2. They have in past changed the free quotas so drastically that datastore operations have failed resulting in loss of service and or data

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