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Comment by manigandham | Hacker News Reader

Where does this rumor even come from? I don't see any evidence for it but there's always a HN comment about it. In fact, I've never had a Google service shutdown but a dozen smaller companies have disappeared in the meantime.

Also, this is a B2B product which is treated much more seriously than their standard consumer products.

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"Google’s list of dead services; an infographic:" http://www.androidauthority.com/google-services-shut-down-23...

If that's really the full list then I'm not sure what the problem is. Google Reader was a good service and universally mourned but many of the others have evolved into newer products or have much better non-Google alternatives (it even says that in the descriptions). What in that list are you missing today?

It's not just the apps that Google explicitly retires, there are also the ones that Google just stops paying attention to and they fade into nothingness. Google Voice comes to mind.

My company recently switched to Google suite of apps (Gmail, Hangouts, Calendar, etc) and soon after was given the heads up that we should expect minimal support/updates to Hangouts since Google is shifting their online chat efforts into Allo and Duo. We're now regretting that switch.

We were using StackDriver for our AWS monitoring which they bought and killed. B2B definitely isn't safe. They've earned this reputation IMO.

StackDriver is still available and can still monitor AWS: https://cloud.google.com/monitoring/quickstart-aws

Even if it no longer works for your usecase, it's not a Google originated service but another startup that was shutdown/acquired/sold which is what I was referring to.

Should we hold it against google when they acquire a startup and shut it down? Or is it preferable for them to wait for the startup to wind down the service first and then swoop in?

I think it's important to distinguish between consumer services, especially beta and one via acquisition, and core parts of their cloud / big-data ecosystem. Do you worry about Azure services because Microsoft killed WMP or WM10 or FoxPro?

I don't know, I'm assuming users just care that the product or service continues to exist and get better. If an acquisition helps then great, otherwise... sure, we can blame whatever decisions led to the demise, although it's rarely as simple as "stupid big company wasted a bunch of money and made people sad".

Stackdriver isn't dead. I use it today. You can still run it against AWS.

Eh? Stackdriver is a alive and kicking, even their PMs happily interact with customers on the google group and even SO. I've had positive interactions with them regarding some desired use-cases and workarounds until features are available. I'm much more pumped about StackDriver than CloudWatch logs although both have limitations.

Stackdriver is alive and now supports AWS and GCP. Were certain features you used dropped? Which?

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