Google Cloud Prediction API End of Life

I think Google just made job of some sales manager at AWS Rekognition way easier.

One thing that I find so amazing about AWS (Amazon Web Services) is that I'm not aware of them ever EOLing one of their apis (I could be wrong). We still have a bunch of code that still uses SimpleDB and even though they haven't promoted SDB for a while, they haven't EOLed it.

From the FAQ:

Q: Why is Google Cloud Platform no longer supporting Cloud Prediction API?

A: As we've expanded our Cloud Machine Learning services, many of the use-cases supported by Cloud Prediction API can be better served by Cloud Machine Learning Engine.

I'm tired of Google shutting down or screwing up services. I come from marketing, and while I still use Adwords, I'm more and more moving to other platforms for research and spending my money. It's not only that, the moment you have a problem, it's up to yourself, while other companies have a customer service that actually replies, with more or less success.

I'm also learning programming, basically because I want to get into Data Science and I'm doing everything I can to avoid using Google Cloud, even though I found Bigtable to be easy to use and the kind of stuff that I wanted for a project, but I forced myself into learning how to get a postgre & couch dbs up. Also using vps's from a local provider (clouding.io).

It's like... I can see myself in the future spending time on modifying stuff because Google make X decision, instead of doing stuff I enjoy.

Totally misread this as google cloud predict-the-end-of-your-life API.