Google Cloud will shutter its IoT Core service next year

Google Cloud will shut down its IoT Core service, giving customers a year to move to a partner to manage their IoT devices.

Google believes that having partners manage the process for customers is a better way to go. 'Since launching IoT Core, it has become clear that our customers’ needs could be better served by our network of partners that specialize in IoT applications and services,' a Google spokesperson explained.

Competitors AWS and Microsoft offer similar services, which provide a way for customers to manage their IoT devices, while ingesting and making sense of all of the data coming in from those devices.