I see Google is getting a spanking in this thread and I wouldn’t suggest for a moment that they don’t deserve it.

However, I hadn’t seen anyone mention the specific Enterprise API / product designation they rolled out over a year ago to deal with this kind of thing.

If I understood things correctly when they launched it [1] the plan was to start by saying which parts of the GCP platform you could confidently rely on with the implication that the other parts you should understand you’re using products and services that haven’t proven their long term value inside of Google and as a result things like this can happen and you should plan accordingly.

As far as I know this is the first thing to go since making that announcement but I’d be happy to be corrected as well.

[1] https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/inside-google-cloud/new...