Google surprised its burgeoning base of infrastructure cloud users Wednesday with an across-the-board reduction in Compute Engine prices of about 10 percent, a move seen as yet another escalation of ...

Google today announced the general availability of the Google Compute Engine, the cloud computing platform it launched in the summer of 2012. As part of the GA launch, Google also announced expanded ...

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For the purposes of this post, I'll be using GCE - Google Compute Engine. Yes, I know Amazon offers compute services, and you can probably do something similar with spot instances over there, but I ...

Google Compute Engine (GCE), the infrastructure service of Google Cloud Platform, is a late entrant in the market. Amazon EC2 was announced in 2006 while Microsoft added VMs to Azure in 2012. Google ...

Over at the Google Compute Blog, Hanan Youssef and Scott Van Woudenberg write that the company now offers new VMs with the most Skylake vCPUs of any cloud provider. Got compute- and memory-hungry ...

At last year’s Google I/O developer conference, Google launched Compute Engine, a cloud computing platform that allows developers to run their apps on Linux virtual machines hosted on Google’s massive ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I focus on disruptive trends in technology and cloud computing. The IaaS service is very similar to Amazon's EC2 service which it ...

Google kicked off what’s sure to be another pricing war in the public cloud services arena today by dropping the price of all its Compute Engine instances by roughly 10 percent. It’s an attempt to ...

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