G Suite

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G Suite is a brand of cloud computing, productivity & collaboration tools, and software & products developed by Google, first launched on August 28, 2006 as "Google Apps for Your Domain", which is becoming a paid-only service in 2022.

Why not

(opinion, feel free to revise, contribute other perspectives)

The sudden involuntary change (see #Criticism) of free tier to a paid tier (under threat of loss of access to your personal data) made it clear you can’t depend on G Suite as a good faith service to access your data.

How to

How to migrate

(this section is a stub! please contribute your experiences migrating away from G Suite)

For general advice on migration, see:

migration

Downtime

2020-12-14

Downtime / Outage 2020-12-14 The Verge: Gmail, YouTube, Google Docs, and other Google services hit by massive outage

Multiple Google services and websites including YouTube, Gmail, Google Assistant, and Google Docs were down for around an hour on Monday morning after being hit with a widespread outage.

https://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=issue&sid=1&iid=52f0b876cce03b08d13dc753c55fc3b2

Criticism

Sudden retiring of free tier

Google announced retiring of free usage level with less than 4 months notice before they auto-upgrade free accounts to auto-charged paid accounts on 2022-05-01.

2022-01-19 Ars Technica: Google to free G Suite users: Pay up or lose your account / Have a free G Suite account from 2006-2012? You have until May to fork over cash.

History

2019-05-22 Google Stored G Suite Users' Passwords in Plain-Text for 14 Years