Google Cloud Platform Opens To General Availability With New Pricing

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Google announced today at I/O that it made Google Cloud Platform generally available, marking a milestone for the cloud community and the real arrival of a giant to contend with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and its pay-as-you-go pricing.

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The headline here is a little misleading: Google Cloud Platform is an overall umbrella including a number of different technologies, most of which were already generally available (its Google's parallel to Amazon Web Services.)

What is now available-to-everyone is Google Compute Engine, the IaaS offering (Google Cloud Platform's equivalent to AWS's EC2.)

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