Cloudways can now run your web apps on top of Google’s cloud

January 13, 2015 Off By David

Grazed from VentureBeat. Author: Jordan Novet.

Cloudways, a startup that sets up and manages components for applications on top of cloud-computing infrastructure, has learned that developers want to try out the Google Compute Engine public cloud. So Cloudways is adding support for it, even though it’s still young in comparison with, say, Amazon Web Services (AWS).

“They have slashed their prices drastically — by 40 or 50 percent — and are trying to give a hard time to AWS,” cofounder Aaqib Gadit told VentureBeat in an interview. The price cuts have brought more attention to the Google cloud, Gadit said, but it’s got “many, many complex options.” So it makes sense for Cloudways to simplify application deployment on Google…

The move is the latest evidence of a wider recognition of the increasing appeal of the Google Compute Engine in the highly competitive public cloud market. CoreOS, Mesosphere, Xplenty, and Elasticsearch, among others, have brought their different types of infrastructure tools to Google’s cloud over the past several months…

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