Google Reinvents How Cloud Computing Is Priced
March 25, 2014
Grazed from Wired. Author: Cade Metz.
Many people complain that renting computer power from Amazon and other cloud companies is too expensive. Though the cloud is a great way to get a startup off the ground or run a website where the daily traffic ebbs and flows, the voices say, there are other times when it’s far cheaper to just buy your own computer hardware. “I’m not a big believer in the public cloud,” one Silicon Valley CEO told us this past summer. “It’s just not effective in the long run.” But Google wants to change this.
Today, at an event in San Francisco, the tech giant significantly reduced the prices attached to several of its cloud computing services, seeking an edge over Amazon, the world’s dominant cloud company. “This brings you industry leading pricing without the complexity you’re used to,” said Urs Hölzle, who oversees Google’s cloud services and its entire online infrastructure…
The company reduced prices by 32 percent across its Google Compute Engine, which offers raw virtual machines for running just about any software. It made a similar reduction on Google App Engine, a service that automatically runs and manages your software applications but asks that you build these applications in rather specific way. And it lowered prices by about 68 percent on Google Cloud Storage, a means of storing data, and by about 85 percent on Google Big Query, which lets you analyze larger amounts of data…
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