{"id":2395,"date":"2012-06-28T19:56:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-28T19:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2305375"},"modified":"2012-06-28T19:56:00","modified_gmt":"2012-06-28T19:56:00","slug":"google-copies-amazon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/google-copies-amazon\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Copies Amazon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google has copied Amazon and wheeled out an EC2 Infrastructure-as-a-Service imitator at the Google I\/O developer conference in San Francisco Thursday proving the scuttlebutt on the money.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s called Compute Engine and Google will rent out the spare stripped-down servers (Linux virtual machines) in its data centers to run third-party apps, putting its skills and gargantuan scale up for sale.<br \/>\nIt claims it\u2019s \u201c50% more power per dollar\u201d than Amazon, which recently trimmed its prices.<br \/>\nGoogle already has the platform-as-a-service App Engine and the S3-like Google Cloud Storage but the money is in IaaS. It\u2019s said Amazon Web Services may do $2 billion this year. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2305375\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has copied Amazon and wheeled out an EC2 Infrastructure-as-a-Service imitator at the Google I\/O developer conference in San Francisco Thursday proving the scuttlebutt on the money.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s called Compute Engine and Google will rent out the spare&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2395","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}