Cloud Computing: Google Out to Thump Amazon

Google’s got Amazon Web Services and Rackspace/OpenStack in its sights.
It’s 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.
They include high-memory and high-CPU instances as well as a lower-cost diskless file configuration for applications that don’t need a dedicated disk attached to their server.
Google, which is reputedly “blazingly fast” compared to Amazon, also cut prices on its four main instances by around 5% and its standard storage by around 20%.

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