Google To Amazon: Our Cloud’s Still Cheaper

Amazon, Microsoft, and Google aren’t slashing cloud prices as fast and furious as they did two years ago, but there’s still plenty of smack talk going on.  For example, Google  GOOG -1.64%  on Friday took to its cloud blog to proclaim that its cloud computing service is less expensive than comparable Amazon  AMZN -0.14% Web Services products.

To back up a bit, AWS trimmed prices 5% on Tuesday for some Elastic Compute Cloud instances, its 51st cost cut to date across all its services. Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) is Amazon’s term for units of computing power that it sells or rents to customers. EC2 “instances” are the cloud equivalent of a computer’s central processing unit…