{"id":4861,"date":"2012-11-29T15:11:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-29T15:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2464690"},"modified":"2012-11-29T15:11:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-29T15:11:00","slug":"cloud-computing-google-out-to-thump-amazon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/cloud-computing-google-out-to-thump-amazon\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloud Computing: Google Out to Thump Amazon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google\u2019s got Amazon Web Services and Rackspace\/OpenStack in its sights.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s upgrading its young Infrastructure-as-a-Service Compute Engine, still in preview, and piling on 36 new types of server configurations with different virtual cores, memory and disk types, up from the four basic instances it had at introduction in June.<br \/>\nThey include high-memory and high-CPU instances as well as a lower-cost diskless file configuration for applications that don\u2019t need a dedicated disk attached to their server.<br \/>\nGoogle, which is reputedly \u201cblazingly fast\u201d compared to Amazon, also cut prices on its four main instances by around 5% and its standard storage by around 20%. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2464690\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google\u2019s got Amazon Web Services and Rackspace\/OpenStack in its sights.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s upgrading its young Infrastructure-as-a-Service Compute Engine, still in preview, and piling on 36 new types of server configurations with different virtual cores, memory &#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-4861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4861","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=4861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}