Customers of the internet of things core service will be given a year to move to a partner.
There was an announcement at the top of the internet core website. Customers received an email from the company announcing the change.
Partnering with other people is a better way to go. Since launching the internet of things core, it has become clear that our customers' needs could be better served by our network of partners that specialize in the internet of things.
The company is aware of its reputation for suddenly shutting down services and is trying to make the move as smooth as possible for customers. We have worked extensively to provide customers with migration options and solution alternatives and are providing a year-long runway before the end of the internet of things core.
It didn't appease commenters on Hacker News who were critical of the news and questioned the commitment of the company to its customers.
Amazon Web Services and Microsoft offer similar services that allow customers to manage their Internet of Things devices while making sense of all of the data coming in from those devices.
After all the hype about the internet of things, it was interesting to see that this particular service was going to be shut down. I like it. The internet of things was supposed to be a big driver for cloud loads.
The big three cloud vendors haven't had a lot of innovation on the internet of things. The best-of-breed and specialized vendors have been able to catch up due to the fact that all three have been standing still. He said that the specialized internet of things vendors now run on the big three cloud infrastructure and don't need to invest in or maintain a software platform. The internet of things core service has been deprecating by only one company.
The mounting losses that the company has been facing in the cloud division could be the reason for this. The company reported $6 billion in revenue in its most recent earnings report last month, up from $4.7 billion the previous year. The division lost $858 million, more than the previous year's $591 million loss.
It is worth pointing out that the cloud infrastructure market is growing rapidly and that the market could be getting a bigger piece of that over time. According to a report by Synergy Research, the market was worth over $55 billion last quarter, with 10% of that coming from search giant Google. Amazon and Microsoft had 34% and 21%, respectively. The market, which includes infrastructure as a service, platform as a service and hosted private cloud services, grew in the second quarter of the year. The $6 billion figure includes additional services beyond the ones Synergy counts.
When it comes to changing or shutting down a service, the core tenets of the company are outlined in a post. The company stated that if a deprecation or breaking change is inevitable, the burden is on them to make the migration as easy as possible.
Customers like those on Hacker News feel like they have been left out in the cold. As it tries to grow the division, it will need to address trust issues that commenters see as a problem.
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