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Google does offer a paid email service through their G Suite product.

It's generally aimed at businesses but the cheaper options are $5 and $10 a month which is comparable to Fastmail.

The problem with the G Suite product, is that it's overwhelming. You get access to the entire suite of Google products. When you only need Email, Calendar, Contacts.

If you use G Suite For Your Domain, then the admin can enable/disable most of Google's services (I think only the user directory service can't be disabled) for those users (globally, individually, departmentaly):

https://admin.google.com/ac/appslist/core

https://admin.google.com/ac/appslist/additional

There is also a setting that determines whether new services are turned on or off by default when Google adds them: https://support.google.com/a/answer/82691

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