Ha! A year ago I steered away from GCP for a long-term personal project because I had a small but persistent worry that they'd shut it down, and switching clouds has a cost. I considered myself near-crazy for making the decision on that basis -- they wouldn't do that, would they?! that's silly! that's ridiculous! -- and was a little embarrassed to reveal my rationale to others. Saying it out loud sounded so alarmist, so far-fetched.
And yet here we are. Glad I kept clutching those pearls.
#2 by 2023? Good luck. I wouldn't bet a dollar on them knocking Amazon or Microsoft off their perches by then, and I won't spend another dollar on GCP.
I no longer use any of Google's services and neither does my employer for this reason.
We did have one application running on their cloud, but decided to move it to aws because we just can't trust them to keep anything around. Every year we had to rebuild some part of our app, because they replaced or completely removed some feature we were using. It got old and we were done with it...
And yet here we are. Glad I kept clutching those pearls.
#2 by 2023? Good luck. I wouldn't bet a dollar on them knocking Amazon or Microsoft off their perches by then, and I won't spend another dollar on GCP.