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Google made a number of announcements about its Cloud Platform earlier this week, including Cloud DNS, a site Name System services to offer developers a “highly available, reliable, and cheap “way to publish DNS zones and records.

Google previously blogged about a few of its other big announcements like price drops, sustained-use discounts, managed virtual machines, expanded Compute Engine support, real-time big data with BigQuery, and a few other developer tools.

In a brand new blog post, Google is talking more about Cloud DNS. Developers can use the Cloud DNS API to regulate their very own DNS records, and its nameservers reply to DNS queries to assist route use traffic to servers and web apps.

“Cloud DNS may be used to call hosts, webservers and other internet resources, including Google Compute Engine virtual machines, and Google Cloud Storage buckets,” writes product manager Surbhi Kaul. “You also can use this service for zones and records for systems hosted on your datacenters and remote offices. Cloud DNS serves from greater than 20 locations globally, and relies at the same principles and similar infrastructure implemented in Google’s authoritative service used for all Google properties which services billions of queries daily. Cloud DNS’ global, anycast-based network of DNS nameservers responds to finish user queries from an optimal location, leading to low DNS query latency, thereby increasing the access speed and improving the total experience of end users.”

“Cloud DNS offers a self-service sign on with an inexpensive pay-as-you-go model,” Kaul adds. “You pay for the collection of managed zones plus records, and for the variety of queries serviced for those zones and records.”

Cloud DNS costs $0.40 per 1000000 queries per 30 days for the primary billion queries, and $0.20 per hosted zone monthly for the primary 25 zones.

The product is in preview mode rapidly. More here.

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