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Comment by devonbleak | Hacker News Reader

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

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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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