common in other cloud environments, they just give you a longer runway / head's up on it
2) price increases
true
3) shitty customer service
same as azure and aws -- google, though, have a crap reputation to begin with. With the other two, it was a surprise.
4) continued existance of google cloud
article is over a year old; and - frankly - aws is likely to spin-off from amazon sooner than google cloud being shutdown
no sources, that is just my gut feel.
The market is easily large enough to have 4 - 6 global players *AND* 2 - 3 regional / country-specific ones as well.