Google Cloud

Google | November 30, 2015

Google Compute Engine went down for approximately 70 minutes last week, the company has confirmed, making certain Internet destinations unreachable from the europe-west1 region during that time. The issue first came to light at 1326 PST on November 23 with a status update, before a further missive at 1432 confirming the problems should have been resolved....

Google | December 23, 2015

Google’s elegant Cloud Platform makes it easy to spin up instances or simply tap Google APIs only when you need them.If one company among all companies is synonymous with cloud-centered computing, it would be Google. From the very beginning, Google built a business located somewhere in the murky depths of the Internet, and its search engine continues to be one of the most formidable engineering marvels of the modern world. When was the last time there was an outage?...

Google | December 22, 2015

New Google cloud features for containers and big data highlighted the platform improvements in 2015. It was also a year for surprise partnerships and continued efforts to rein in costs.Google continued to bolster its services in the extremely competitive -- if not very crowded -- market of global public cloud vendors, yet many of the concerns that lingered in 2014 remained in 2015....

Google | September 11, 2015

Google's Preemptible VMs are now generally available, allowing its customers to use instances at 30% of the standard cost. Those cost savings come with strings attached, however, as customers can be booted at any time and will always be terminated after 24 hours....