{"id":10452,"date":"2014-03-26T10:13:49","date_gmt":"2014-03-26T10:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2014\/mar\/26\/google-slashes-prices-cloud-platform-throws-down-gauntlet-amazon\/"},"modified":"2014-03-26T10:13:49","modified_gmt":"2014-03-26T10:13:49","slug":"google-slashes-prices-for-cloud-platform-throws-down-gauntlet-to-amazon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/google-slashes-prices-for-cloud-platform-throws-down-gauntlet-to-amazon\/","title":{"rendered":"Google slashes prices for cloud platform, throws down gauntlet to Amazon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>You need a PhD to work out the best option, says Google SVP<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Google has cut prices for its cloudy infrastructure across the board, aiming to &ldquo;blend IaaS and PaaS&rdquo; as well as change the outlook of the cloud pricing wars.<\/p>\n<p>The Mountain View giant is reducing the price of its IaaS offering Compute Engine by a third (32%) &lsquo;across all sizes, regions and classes&rsquo;, &lsquo;significant reductions in database operations and front-end compute instances&rsquo; for the PaaS product App Engine, a two thirds (68%) drop in Cloud Storage pricing as well as an 85% reduction in Google BigQuery on-demand.<\/p>\n<p>Google also announced Sustained-Use Discounts to provide better savings for regular users. Those who use a virtual machine for over a quarter of a month get an automatic discount, while an additional 30% cut is added for those who use a VM for the entire month.<\/p>\n<p>In a blog post Google &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You need a PhD to work out the best option, says Google SVP<br \/>\nGoogle has cut prices for its cloudy infrastructure across the board, aiming to &ldquo;blend IaaS and PaaS&rdquo; as well as change the outlook of the cloud pricing wars.<br \/>\nThe Mountain View gia&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}