Google Launches Compute Engine To Take On Amazon Web Services

by DanBlake on 6/28/2012, 5:53 PM with 13 comments
  • by r3m6 on 6/28/2012, 6:06 PM

    Somehow... with the Google product price changes (price hikes!) in maps and app engine, I am not sure if they have enough credibility left to pull this off.

  • by herval on 6/28/2012, 6:41 PM

    IMHO, THAT market is something Google has the "DNA" to compete ostensibly on: they have the know-how and infrastructure to go heads on with AWS...

  • by timClicks on 6/28/2012, 6:52 PM

    The Compute Engine is hitting a much different segment of the market to Amazon AWS. There are no 256MB RAM instances available. This product is aimed higher in the market: http://cloud.google.com/pricing/compute-engine.html

    Edit: added link

  • by dkhenry on 6/28/2012, 9:04 PM

    I initially thought this was a competitor to The Elastic Beanstalk, I would have been much happier with that kind of service then another Cloud hosting service.

  • by ChuckMcM on 6/28/2012, 11:28 PM

    I'll add the silly comment that given their costing, what is the price per mined bitcoin? Granted using a botnet will be cheaper but I'm wondering about 'floors' in that space. What is the cost of a 3DES key? what is the cost of an MD5 collision? etc.