Month: November 2022

Google One-Ups AWS’ Second Billing Plan Google launched this week a per-second billing plan for renting virtual machines (VMs), just over a week after Amazon Web Services (AWS). The second billing cycle will begin Tuesday for VMs that are running on the following Google Cloud Platform services (GCP).

- November 4, 2023 - Chavez

Compute Engine Container Engine Cloud Dataproc App Engine Google used to bill users by the minute for running VMs on its platform. This was the norm. According to Paul Nash, …

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Google Launches Anthos App platform with AWS Support Google announced this week that Anthos is now available for Amazon Web Services (AWS). This is part of Google’s efforts to embrace open standards and allow users to run unmodified apps on-premises as well as in the public cloud. Anthos is a multicloud, hybrid application platform. Anthos is a multicloud and hybrid application platform that provides consistent application development and IT operations across all cloud environments, including hybrid and multicloud. Google introduced Anthos in April 2013. It allows organizations to manage workloads on third-party clouds such as AWS and Azure. This gives them the freedom to deploy, run, and manage their applications on any cloud they choose, without having to teach administrators or developers different environments and APIs. Google fulfilled its multicloud promise by announcing that support for AWS on Anthos was now available and Microsoft Azure support is coming soon. Jennifer Lin, head for product management at Google, wrote in a blog post that “Now you can consolidate your operations across on-premises and Google Cloud (support for Microsoft Azure currently in preview).” Anthos is made up of four components:

- November 4, 2023 - Chavez

Anthos GKE: A container orchestration service and management service that allows Kubernetes clusters to be run in cloud and on-premises environments. Anthos Config Management: Provides assistance to organizations in the …

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Google Challenges AWS with Nearline Storage Google Inc. has launched a challenge for established cloud service providers such as Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS). It recently introduced a beta Nearline Storage service to store data that is often not accessed but needs to be kept accessible by enterprises. AWS is under threat from the search giant. Google, IBM, and Microsoft have been threatening AWS’s position as the leader in cloud services. A blog post by Avtandil Garakanidze, Google program manager, stated that many of you use a tiered storage and archival system in which data moves from expensive online storage into offline cold storage. Nearline allows you to store unlimited amounts of data and back them up in seconds. We know how important it is to have access to your data whenever you need it. Google could win a competitive advantage with the “matter-of-seconds” reference. Garakanidze stated that Nearline has a 3-second response time for data retrieval, which is comparable to its competitors. It also improves SLAs. AWS and its Amazon Glacier storage services could be one of those “competitors”. Both services advertise storage pricing starting from 1 cent per gigabyte. However, AWS states on its product website that Amazon Glacier is optimized for infrequently used data where retrieval times of several hours are suitable. Google claimed that Nearline Storage is suitable for situations where storage with lower availability and greater latency is acceptable in order to save storage costs. The following are some examples.

- November 4, 2023 - Chavez

Cold data storage — Data that is not frequently accessed, such as data stored for legal or regulatory purposes, and should be kept at a low cost, but still be …

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