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A 12-month advance notice obligation gives customers meaningful lead time to migrate, renegotiate, or find alternatives before a Service disappears.
Interpretive note: The excerpt contains an exception (no notice required if Google replaces the discontinued Service with a materially similar one) that is the primary omitted proposition. The canonical claim states only the primary notice obligation.
Customers are entitled to at least 12 months' warning before Google Cloud removes a Service or associated material functionality they rely on.
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A 12-month advance notice obligation gives customers meaningful lead time to migrate, renegotiate, or find alternatives before a Service disappears.
Customers are entitled to at least 12 months' warning before Google Cloud removes a Service or associated material functionality they rely on.
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