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Google announced on Tuesday at its Cloud Platform Live event that it’s lowering prices on Cloud Platform, and launching cloud-based DevOps tooling, Managed Virtual Machines (VM) for App Engine, real-time Big Data analytics with BigQuery.
On the pricing, Google SVP of Technical Infrastructure Urs Hölzle says, “The original promise of cloud computing was simple: virtualize hardware, pay just for what you operate, with out upfront capital expenditures and lower prices than on-premise solutions. But pricing hasn’t followed Moore’s Law: over the last five years, hardware costs improved by 20-30% annually but public cloud prices fell at just 8% per year. We predict cloud pricing should track Moore’s Law, so we’re simplifying and reducing prices for our various on-demand, pay-as-you-go services by 30-85%.”
Compute Engine have been reduced by 32% across all sizes, regions and classes. App Engine gets a simplified pricing strtucture with significant reductions in database operations and front-end compute instances. Cloud Storage is priced at 2.6 per GB, that’s roughly 68% less for many customers, in step with the corporate. Finally, BigQuery on-demend prices was reduced by 85%.
They’ve also launched sustained-use discounts, which start automatically in case you use a VM for over 25% of the month. Should you use a VM for a complete month, Google knocks off another 30% over the recent on-demand prices for a complete reduction of 53
53%.
“We’re also introducing features that make development more productive,” says Hölzle. “Build, test, and release within the cloud, with minimal setup or changes in your workflow. Simply commit a metamorphosis with git and we’ll run a clean build and all unit tests; Aggregated logs across all of your instances, with filtering and search tools; Detailed stack traces for bugs, with one-click access to the precise version of the code that caused the problem. It’s also possible to make small code changes right within the browser. We’re engaged on much more features to make sure that our platform is the most efficient place for developers. Stay tuned.”
Managed VMs allow you to run any binary inside a VM and switch it into component of your App Engine app, and App Engine will automatically manage them.
On real-time big data, Hölzle says, “BigQuery enables you to run interactive SQL queries against datasets of any size in seconds using a totally managed service, without a setup and no configuration. Starting today, with BigQuery Streaming, you possibly can ingest 100,000 records per second per table with near-instant updates, so that you can analyze massive data streams in real time. Yet, BigQuery is extremely affordable: on-demand queries now only cost $5 per TB and 5 GB/sec reserved query capacity starts at $20,000/month, 75% not up to other providers.”
Compute Engine now supports Windows Server 2008 R2 in limited preview and Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for everybody.
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