11/26, 5:25pm
Introduces Amazon Glacier-style backup system
Google has updated the pricing for its cloud computing services, with the new costs representing a drop of about 20 percent compared to what they were previously. The changes come in just before Amazon holds its re:Invent conference in Las Vegas, a developer event focusing on Amazon Web Services and cloud computing.
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06/28, 2:44pm
Compute Engine takes aim at Amazon EC2 service
Google has introduced its "infrastructure-as-a-service" offering during its second-day keynote at the I/O developer conference in San Francisco. Named Google Compute Engine, the product will give businesses and institutions access to the Google datacenter infrastructure to handle large-scale computing tasks, with the ability to scale thousands of Linux virtual machines, in a move that directly competes with Amazon's EC2 and Microsoft's Azure.
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