announcement of deprecated products or services - google-cloud-platform

Refer to 7.2 Deprecation Policy. Google will announce if it intends to discontinue or make backwards incompatible changes to the Services specified at the URL in the next sentence. Google will use commercially reasonable efforts to continue to operate those Services versions and features identified at https://cloud.google.com/terms/deprecation without these changes for at least one year after that announcement, unless (as Google determines in its reasonable good faith judgment)
Question, what is the announcement will be made? Is it email notice to project owner, or announcement on official website?
Thanks

Usually when you are being affected by the deprecation of a GCP tool, the project owner gets an email mentioning what they are going to be affected by as well as some guidance to be able to decrease the impact of that.
Also, they make an announcement on the documentation with the dates in which they plan to deprecate the tools. Something like this is usually added.
Hope you find this useful!

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Google Cloud Platform: Mining cryptocurrencies

I received an email indicating that my Google Cloud Project have been suspended because I was supposedly mining cryptocurrencies.
My project is a tool like a Calculator and that issue surely isn't possible.
What could be happen?
In order to create a function I hired a programmer on UpWork and give him access to the GCP.
Well, it seems this developer has abused our trust and did something wrong.
What can I do?
Now the project is suspended and any section I try to go in the form "Appeal" appears.
I appealed but I have to wait Google to reply.
How can I check if my project have been used for these bad usages?
I want to cut services the developer could be used or so.
Unfortunately, you must wait for Google’s reply.
AS a recommendation you could review this information to determine if it is intended, Cryptocurrency mining is often an indication of the use of fraudulent accounts and payment instruments, and requires verification in order to mine cryptocurrency in the Cloud Security Help Center.
If you believe your project has been compromised, I recommend that you secure all your instances, which may require uninstalling and then reinstalling your project, you could follow the steps.
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Microsoft Cloud For Sustainability on MS Dynamics - is there any demo data available/accessible, extended multilingual support?

I am trying to wrap my head around Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability. Apparently it's a solution based on Microsoft Dynamics. I need to have more back-end to that solution, because as it is right now I'm either lacking permissions (or extra paid access to Microsoft resources) or missing a chunk of documentation, because I'm unable to:
Change default language across the board - I can switch MS Dynamics to any language I want, but it will work for a shell only. Anything that's CfS specific, is in English. Do I remove the demo data and import my own scopes and data? As only thing available are database and Cube for BI analytics and JSON files describing CfS structure in general (that's in CDM), do I really have to create it from scratch? This brings me to second question:
Access entry-level data that's already in demo version - I need to see what's in the database the CfS is using, or be able to modify it. Is there any way to get to it via Business Central, if at all possible?
Since I will be preparing several presentations for potential customers, I need a way to quickly create a dataset based on initial and very basic information provided by each customer, how can I do that with trial user
I work for a company that's Microsoft Certified Partner, so logically resources for what I need should be available to me, but either links in the documentation are dead (and some are, as they redirect to general info) or require some special access level (or are dead, but error message is really not helpful at all).
Is there somewhere else I can go? The Documentation page offers little towards what I need...
P.S. I think I should tag this question with CfS specific tags, but not enough rep...

How does AWS inform API users of changes?

I'm working on a project centered around API Change Management. I'm curious as to how AWS informs developers of changes to its APIs. Is it through the document history (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/apigateway/latest/developerguide/history.html)? Or do they send out emails to developers?
Regarding emails, are emails sent to all developers using the API (ex. API Gateway) or just developers using a particular endpoint and will be affected by the change? What is the frequency of notifications - breaking changes, minor changes, etc.
Thanks so much for your help!
For non-breaking changes, you can learn about them on the Developer Guide as you pointed out. Some of these changes are also announced on their What's New page (RSS feed). You can also follow the SDK releases which are updated often (e.g. by using the RSS feed for aws-sdk-go releases). I believe that most of the SDKs are using code generation to generate a lot of the API functionality. They push updates to these files in the SDK git repositories (ruby example, go example), but it is not clear if there is another place to find these files. It doesn't seem like they want us to consume these directly (see this developer forum thread from 2015). There's also awsapichanges.info, which appears to be built by AWS themselves.
AWS very rarely makes breaking changes to their API. Even SimpleDB, which is a very old AWS product, still works.
Having said that, they do make breaking changes from time to time, but they try to announce them well ahead of time. The biggest breaking change that they are trying to complete is probably their attempt to deprecate S3 path-style access. This was first quietly announced in their AWS Developer Forums, which caused a lot panic especially since the timeline was incredibly short. Based on the panic, AWS quickly backtracked and revised the plan, more publicly this time.
They have done some other S3 breaking changes in other ways. For example, S3 buckets must now have DNS-compliant names. This was only recently (March 1, 2018) enforced on new buckets in us-east-1, but for most other regions this was enforced from the start when the regions were made available. Old S3 buckets in us-east-1 may still have names that are not DNS-compliant.
Lambda is removing old runtimes once the version of the programming language stops being maintained (such as Python 2.7). This should be a known expectation for anyone who starts using the service, and there is always a new version that you can migrate to. AWS sends you email reminders if you still have Lambda functions that is using the old runtime, when the deadline nears.
Here is a GitHub repository where people try to track breaking changes: https://github.com/SummitRoute/aws_breaking_changes. You can see that the list is not that long.

How long can I expect that youtube api v.3 is maintained?

I'm looking at youtube api v.3 for a project for a client. They want to know for how long the applicaiton will work without maintenance. Is there any dates presented for how long api v.3 will be supported, or at least a version history for when the previous api:s where created and depricated?
The answer can be found in the Terms of Service:
Deprecation.
Google will announce if it intends to discontinue or make backwards
incompatible changes to this API or Service. Google will use
commercially reasonable efforts to continue to operate those YouTube
API versions and features identified at
http://developers.google.com/youtube/youtube-api-list without these
changes until the later of: (i) one year after the announcement or
(ii) April 20, 2015, unless (as Google determines in its reasonable
good faith judgment):
required by law or third party relationship (including if there is a
change in applicable law or relationship), or doing so could create a
security risk or substantial economic or material technical burden.
The above policy is the "Deprecation Policy."

microsoft shared point like web site

My friend asked me if it is possible to build a web site like Microsoft shared point for his planning startup company. He want to share doc with his employees. I think the reason he asked is Microsoft is too expensive. I have no idea right now for this. Anybody knows anything about this? thanks,
EDIT:
Because docs shared are sensitive (contains SSN and other sensitive data), security should be good enough.
If he just wants to share file he could try Box.net or dropbox. Box.net also have simple workflows with tasks.
I use Google Docs quite often and it is very useful. You can also setup a wiki and attach docs as needed.
Microsoft SharePoint Foundation is free and comes with a host of features.
Tell your friend to sign up for Microsoft BizSpark. This is a free program from Microsoft specifically for startups and will give them access to a whole suite of software for free for 3 years (with a $100 charge at the end). This includes SharePoint.
I would recommend a combination of Google Sites and Google Docs. It's free, it's easy, and it eliminates the need to maintain the hardware and other infrastructure associated with a site, much less something as heavy-weight as Sharepoint.