Many, many years ago, a new product or service announcement from Google would leave me interested and excited. Now I just shrug and wonder when it will be abandoned.
Google Cloud Armor
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Re: Google Cloud Armor
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Name one product in GCP (that had reached general release) that they have "extinguished".
Google custom search
Not part of GCP. Yes they have a history of shutting down free services but things in GCP don't get shut down, they are products, products people pay for.
Re: Google Cloud Armor
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> Cloudflare is way too expensive. Eh? DDoS protection on Cloudflare is free: https://blog.cloudflare.com/unmetered-mitigation/ Which features of Google Cloud Armor are "too expensive" with Cloudflare? (Disclosure: I'm an engineer at Cloudflare, but I'm genuinely curious what you mean here.)
Not comparing to Cloud Armor, but the $200/month minimum to bring one's own tls certificate. That alone puts Cloudflare squarely on the list of unusable options for any small project or business that is running their entire production infrastructure on less than $100/month. Also, the inability to specify cache expirations below... what was it... 30 minutes or 2 hours? Again, forced to pay too much for one of the core…
Do you really need your own certificate vs using their free provisioned ones?
If you need that kind of technical details than Cloudfront or Stackpath are pretty good for low traffic sites.
Re: Google Cloud Armor
#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
Agreed. I just wish it wasn't Google. They "extinguished" a lot of good projects...
Name one product in GCP (that had reached general release) that they have "extinguished".
These immediately come to mind. I'm sure there's more if I dig deeper.
* Theano -> TF
* The multitude of RSS readers -> Google Reader
* Severely undermined Firefox
* Usenet newsgroups -> Google Groups